abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

Then there's Seattle, of course. The Provincial Government also offers tax credits and cash-back incentives to investors, as well as investment and support from the regional colleges and universities. The proximity to other tech hubs like Seattle and Silicon Valley may make it easy to overlook Vancouver.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

United Way partnered with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management to offer classes on general board governance topics such as finance and accountability. Boys & Girls Clubs of King County, Seattle. Shields for Families, Los Angeles. Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

A friend of mine in Seattle just asked me the same question recently. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. This is tough, and something I hear a lot. In addition, I would seek out angel investors and VCs in Philly.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. When members see connections, they often partner with one another, backstopping and expanding each other’s capabilities and skills or forming entirely new ventures.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

Its streamlined nature makes it more responsive than most governments. So in the early days and weeks of the pandemic, when our own federal government seemed largely paralyzed or in denial about how to respond to the rapid global spread of the disease, the Gates Foundation continued to escalate its investments.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The studio’s design talent boasts some famous names among the list of partners, including Paula Scher, Michael Beirut, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Harry Pearce, and many more. Locations: San Francisco, Austin, New York, London, Milan, Munich, Shanghai, Gurgaon, Seattle, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Sydney. Headquarters: London.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. For entrepreneurs seeking assistance in R&D, Toronto is a great bet.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. An equal number of non-productive administrative/audit people would be needed on the other end, within businesses who use technology, as well as their technology partners.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

  The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was.   In truth, our industry is built on a trust model.   Prudence wins out over blind trust.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. For entrepreneurs seeking assistance in R&D, Toronto is a great bet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. He wrote a big essay to the government and demanded all the people locally stopped killing the bird or capturing it for pets or for food. It seems crazy in Seattle, but it doesn’t seem crazy in China at all. Transcript.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners.

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