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The Austin Startup Diversity and Inclusion Pledge

Austin Startup

The core idea is that startups will pledge to take a few concrete measures in the way they operate their company that should, over time, increase the number of minorities, women and people who identify as LGBTQ in the startup community.

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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

Up and Running

How a now-famous web company got funded by Mark Cuban. Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. But, before they were big names, they were simply a team that needed additional money urgently to pay their website development firm. Turn to your state.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare. No hassles. No regrets.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Today, TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute is announcing in conjunction with law firm Wilson Sonsini, Convertible Equity, a startup-friendly seed-financing vehicle intended to replace Convertible Debt notes. FOUNDER INSTITUTE. Website: thefunded.com.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. If you are a founder who is excited about starting a new marketplace, there are two caveats that are important to remember.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment. and Google.