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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service!

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles is known for sun, stars, and surf, and now you can add startups to the list.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. On why you should be an entrepreneur, “A lot of people do what they have to do. He was riveting.

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The Lean Startup Book Tour

Startup Lessons Learned

Thursday, September 15 - Los Angeles Drucker Business Forum It starts bright and early at the Drucker Business Forum , with a breakfast event at 7:45am (talk starts at 8:15). September 23-26 - TBA I'll be in New York and then Washington DC for media on these days, but don't have anything public on the schedule to announce.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Los Angeles. Los Angeles is known for sun, stars, and surf, and now you can add startups to the list.

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Jason Fried is on Cloud Nine

Growthink Blog

Jason is also the author of Rework, a New York Times bestseller on entrepreneurship, technology, and design. In addition to being a fantastic piece of software (more on that in a bit), it is also a prototype of where all of the smart money in technology investing is these days. 10 million. million.

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Women 2.0 Partners Google, Extends Founder Friday Events

YoungUpstarts

Both companies will jointly be investing in activities that foster innovation and supporting startups, beginning with Women 2.0 ‘s signature networking event Founder Friday. Media and event company Women 2.0 We’re excited, with the help of Google, to create effective support systems that will reinvigorate innovation around the world.”