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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 Top 7 Marketing Lessons We Can Learn From Nature

Duct Tape Marketing

What Africa ungulates can teach us about competition. Jeremy King is CEO and founder of Attest, a fast-scaling, SaaS technology business based in London and New York. What squid orgies can teach us about showing value. What bowerbirds can teach us about how to reframe problems as opportunities.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

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. I think we’ll also see continued diversity from a geographic and demographic standpoint.

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Bucket List Corporate Travel Destinations: 5 Places Your Employees Won’t Want to Miss

The Startup Magazine

New York City. The Big Apple — the city that never sleeps — New York is arguably the most famous city in the world. The hub of American tourism, attracting millions of visitors every year, New York is alive with unique experiences. South Africa.

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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). If you would like to be a speaker or simply attend any of the programs below, at no cost, contact Katherine St. Onge, Katherine.St.Onge(@)aspeninst.org.

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

The company is based in San Francisco, with significant operations in Africa and elsewhere. #5: DigitalOcean is based in New York City. #9: Techstars funded ClassPass through our Techstars New York Accelerator in 2012. 5: Scopely (2011). Techstars Ventures 2009 invested in the angel debt round in 2011.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

I thought of a name and settled on Kilimanjaro, after the highest mountain in Africa. That’s when I began to think of New York. After confirming it in prayer, I was off to New York City. I like the visual image it evokes of being on top of the mountain and seeing everything around you. We did that.