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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Shane Kenny, founder of Filtersnap. In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. Safe Eyes had been named the #1 parental control product out of 11 products tested by Consumer Reports.

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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

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Cayuga Venture Fund recently closed an investment in a company called Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC). The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology. Hope you enjoy it.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

It wasn't until Amazon invented walk-out technology that he was open to expanding. When I think of innovation, the name Marc pops into my mind. The entire world was in need of this technology. She persevered and disrupted the beauty and skincare industry with her business acumen and diligence. 5- Florian Brandstetter.

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

Both Sides of the Table

Industry reviews. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. So the “VC associate” is largely a launching pad job for exceedingly bright and hard-working young tech professionals. We relaunched our brand name. We had to define our brand values to define a name that we felt was fitting.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Traditional banks have helped fuel business and economic growth by providing small business owners with startup loans, general business loans, lines of credit and refinancing programs, to name a few. How it Works.

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Got "Founder Fit?" If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It

Up and Running

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In For the purposes of our own discussion on female founders, the portfolio was the first thing I asked Boris about, and an obvious starting point. The founder drives the culture. Boris Wertz.

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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

I’ve been reviewing my notepad from 2013 and thought I’d share my insights into what’s changed and the big issues from my perspective in startups, business and technology. Technology is no longer a thing: It’s almost not worth mentioning now it is so ensconced in human life. Here’s hoping for 2014.