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How and Why the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator is Different

View from Seed

This initial wave of applicants resulted in the selection of six initial Accelerator participants – female & male founders at startups hailing from the Bay Area to Miami to Alabama to Boston, ranging from b2b SaaS offerings to consumer services… all transforming people’s everyday lives.

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ThriftyComputers.com – A Lesson In Overcoming Obstacles

YoungUpstarts

Hellinger, who founded Miami, Florida-based ThriftyComputer ( ThriftyComputer.com ) at the age of 19, saw that business crash and burn in early 2009 from inexperience. The rare disease made him deaf at the age of 18, and combined with the painful tumors on his hand made working on day-to-day operations at ThriftyComputer a living hell.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Comp sci in the 80s was terrible.

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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

Richard: I went to school for accounting and followed a path after graduation that those of us in that major typically follow: I started working for a CPA firm in Miami. That’s groundbreaking in accounting, where margins are thin and the overheard of operating in-office with year-round staff is high.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free is Not a Business Model

ReadWriteStart

Giving stuff for free is a dangerous game, and it is difficult to sustain operations that have large numbers of free users. You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. Debra Cortese, from Miami, Florida, discussed Cortese Design Bags , a designer of tote bags with natural designs. Desi Sauda.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. Thanks to Ostap Bosak, Royal Fur ! #17