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What’s the Difference Between a Small Business Venture and a Startup?

Up and Running

In comparison to traditional business ventures, startups are expected to grow rapidly, at a rate of between 5% and 7% per week in their initial stage – Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator. This is especially true for those teams or individuals that become a part of an accelerator or incubator program.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, including lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. In the mid-2000’s, there weren’t a lot of options to do so, as the ecosystem vibe still hadn’t recovered from the dot-com bubble burst.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Thank you for the kind introduction. I’d like to start with a request.

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SX Startups: wrnch Expands Interaction

Austin Startup

Our team members have literally been at the bleeding the intersection of real-time AI and computer graphics since 2000. We believe that the wrnchAI engine is a unique AI technology that is going to revolutionize how humans and machines co-evolve. wrnch was a spinout of TandemLaunch , a deep tech incubator in Montreal.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. Hopefully we will see you there! TechCrunch Disrupt NYC.

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