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Reincorporating Your Non-US Startup in the U.S. through the “Delaware Flip”

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Your sights are now set on raising capital in Silicon Valley to scale your business and reach new markets. Imagine that you are the founder of a Brazilian B2B SaaS startup that has landed a few enterprise clients and has some good traction. While your conversations with U.S.

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What are the differences between startups/tech companies founded in Silicon Valley and those founded in New York?

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To the extent that there is one, my guess is that it has as much to do with the traditional market strengths of the two regions, rather than anything else. Uncategorized investments new york silicon valley startups tech' I know of few, if any, chip companies starting in NYC, for example, and not a lot of gaming companies.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

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As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Granted most startups will never become another Apple or Google.

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What are the advantages of stationing your startup in New York City opposed to Silicon Valley / SF?

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Access to many, many more world market centers (advertising, finance, fashion, media, food, etc.). The world’s fastest growing tech startup ecosystem. A much more tightly knit startup community, compared to the larger but more diffuse West Coast community. The world’s largest Tech Meetup (not to mention Meetup.com itself).

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Right Entrepreneurs In The Right Place Get Funded

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According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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One commonly used approach is to identify widely felt “pain points” in the target market; build a workable solution to address them using particularly effective or efficient means; and if the business model pencils out, work like crazy to execute, execute, execute.

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The Gust-DEMO Fall 2012 Scholarship

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You and seventy of the world’s most carefully scrutinized emerging companies will debut your product in Santa Clara, among the best and the brightest in Silicon Valley. Make an impact or change the marketplace into which it is introduced, or create a new market. Make its public debut at the DEMO conference.