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VolunteerSpot Raises $1.5M Financing

Austin Startup

The company creates online volunteer tools designed to help busy moms, teachers and nonprofit leaders easily mobilize and coordinate volunteers in their communities. It's a great week for fundraising in Austin with Skyonic raising $9M, Rally raising $7.9M and VolunteerSpot raising $1.5M.

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

If it doesn’t scale, you’ll wind up with Nebraska soccer moms adding Champion tube socks from Walmart.com. Can you design around it? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. If you found it, you probably knew someone else using it and were taught a norm for what kind of content goes there before you started. Do you want to?

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

If it doesn’t scale, you’ll wind up with Nebraska soccer moms adding Champion tube socks from Walmart.com. Can you design around it? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. If you found it, you probably knew someone else using it and were taught a norm for what kind of content goes there before you started.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

From software and hardware design to advanced manufacturing, Texas is fertile ground for innovation, investment, business starts and smart job growth. in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.”

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.