Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Don’t look here for venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage government grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. For example, I live in the Phoenix area, home of Arizona State University.

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Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2015

Most of those people are at the very early stages of starting a business and as such, are looking to see what others have done. For example, Arizona currently ranks 2nd in the US for eating disorders among youths, and Middletown, Connecticut just cut funding for the student arrests prevention program.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 30, 2015

My family had a home in Arizona and I fell in love with the desert and Arizona State where I went for graduate school in Tempe, Arizona. I ended up staying to work in Arizona and lived there for twenty years. HW: Social Leverage is your early stage VC fund and even prior to SL, you were an angel investor.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

GSD Capital. “ GSD Capital partners with early-stage SaaS founders to fund growth initiatives. This positions F1stcp to be the largest revenue-based investor platform addressing the funding gap for service-based, small businesses led by underserved and underrepresented founders.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And there are business owners that work incredibly hard every day, but they're in the early stages of growth and really need that guidance to unblock those big initial hurdles. They're, we always say small and growing businesses. They're, they're businesses with very big goals and ambition.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The chapter organizer of Lady Gaga Fan Club in Arizona, that person you can locate and you can talk to that person. And that’s really important for an early stage start-up to be able to move as fast as possible etc., Gelie: We are actually one of the most popular local websites here in Arizona. Jason: Wow.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. But as I look at the GRP Partners returns we’ve made a lot of money investing in companies in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Arizona and Seattle.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Lindzon received an MBA at Arizona State University and an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 18, 2005

Last year at this time, I was at Demo in Arizona watching a couple of my portfolio companies launch new products and networking with other VCs and entrepreneurs. 2 early stage companies going after this space are Palamida and Black Duck software.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But I lived in the South, Arizona, Colorado, and the Pacific Northwest. I’ve spent a great deal of time building the early stages of my business out of Europe, and I've now spent the past 14 months of my life working alongside manufacturers in a Spanish-speaking country in South America.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. Approaching Dennis Crowley to figure out how to get access to his earliest investor, Bryce Roberts ? Not so much. There is much controversy on this topic.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

If we’re correct, we can compress the time for commercializing scientific breakthroughs and reduce the early stage risks of these new ventures. Principal Investigator: Eniko Enikov University of Arizona. The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps combines the best of what the U.S.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This year’s conference will highlight twenty promising early-growth companies; all based in the Rocky Mountain region and a majority of which are focused on clean technology, a burgeoning industry in the area.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This year’s conference will highlight twenty promising early-growth companies; all based in the Rocky Mountain region and a majority of which are focused on clean technology, a burgeoning industry in the area.

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