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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

“Founder trouble” is a leading cause of startup death (though data also show that companies with only one founder are more likely to fail , so the conclusion is just that startups are just always likely to fail!). Employee #2 will join a startup for the experience. Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder.

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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

Additionally, the tech startup community has grown so quickly that Utah has a new nickname: The Silicon Slopes. For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. The Texas Enterprise Fund also helps startups gain necessary funding.

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

. ———————————————– Two decades ago, Steve Blank completely changed the course and fortunes of a Stanford spinout startup called Immersion. Present at the Creation. It’s a Capitol Idea. When Steve and NSF created the I-Corps™.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

When I saw it, I asked Zack if I could post it on my blog as an ode to all startups. “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie Watch for startups solving this problem with a focus on observability, reliability, security and automation.

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The Tech Mentorship Gap: How Code2040 Is Solving. What You Can Do. And How LinkedIn Can Help

Hunter Walker

Each summer they match high performing software engineering students from these underrepresented groups with Mentor and summer internships. 15 Host Companies - Etsy, Jawbone, Facebook, Lark, Findery, Klout, Code for America, the City of San Francisco, Foursquare, and 6 other startups. Code2040 Stats To Date.

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. As an investor, I am also bullish about the innovation wave already in its early innings around mobility and autonomy. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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