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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Competition is tight, but recent layoffs and uncertainty have created new possibilities for entrepreneurs. New York City With over 9,000 tech startups , and a startup ecosystem worth over $189 billion, New York City is second to the Silicon Valley Bay area.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

2009 was the nadir of the global economic crisis, followed up an unprecedented bull market. To a lesser degree, markets like New York are demonstrating more promise in recent years and I expect that to continue. I also think we’ll see some new geographies begin to gain momentum, especially LA, and perhaps several others.

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

The schedule of panels in New York is: Monday, January 14 th : Angel Investing Best Practices – 9-11AM, Edwards Wildman offices (750 Lexington, 8th floor; at 59th Street). Moderator: Kris Balderston, Special Representative for Global Partnerships, United States Department of State. Onge, Katherine.St.Onge(@)aspeninst.org.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

If you reflect on one part of Techstars – the accelerator programs – we’ve added the following new programs in 2015. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC). Virgin Media Accelerator (London).

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. The company is based in San Francisco, with significant operations in Africa and elsewhere. #5: DigitalOcean is based in New York City. #9: 4: Zipline (2011).

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Modi and Ma

thebarefootvc

On September 19, Ma led Alibaba to the largest IPO in history, listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange. Due to its one child policy, China has an aging population whereas India, along with SE Asia and Africa, have significant populations below the age of 35. However, Modi’s election could be a turning point.

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Nairobi Weekend: New Startups in East Africa

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It's this side of East Africa this brief report is about and which brought me here, to the mobile revolution I had only read about, and to the IPO48 event with its great bunch of start-ups: Sponsor. Bruno is a European-born entrepreneur currently busy building a new venture, work|i|o , in New York. Discuss.

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