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Pandere Shoes, Anchorage Startups, and Techstars

Feld Thoughts

I met the co-founder Laura Oden when I was in Anchorage last month to speak at the Accelerate Alaska event. She described how she met her founders at Techstars Startup Weekend in 2016. When you think of Alaska, you probably do not think of it as a popular location for producing shoes.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc.,

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Introducing FG Press

Feld Thoughts

Every year or so my partners and I at Foundry Group create a new company, or start a new project, that we believe had the potential to change the way something works in our world, while simultaneously helping the entrepreneurs we work with, and the entrepreneurs we aspire to work with. For example, in 2006, we co-founded Techstars.

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Attention: Female Founders on the Rise

The Startup Magazine

However, workforce implications for women entrepreneurs in training and professional development are profound and not so good. Native American/Alaska. While women are making significant strides, more work is needed for women entrepreneurs to succeed in the 21st Century. Asian American. Native Hawaiian/Pacific. Non-Minority.

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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents. Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. Do it because you love small teams.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. This is an incredible story of entrepreneurial speed in action, of yet another entrepreneur putting their normal business on hold to get into the fight against the pandemic. I didn't have any team.