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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

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We had also just been upgrade from London to Baltimore. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. .” But move them she did. And she decided it wasn’t really important to make me pay since the seats were unoccupied. 2 times in a row – unreal. Very few people do.

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The Best Cities In America For Startups

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Here are a few suggestions: Baltimore. Lots of entrepreneurs have recently moved to Baltimore. For many of the reasons that Baltimore is suggested, Detroit offers a lot to entrepreneurs and startups. All the affordability and savings opportunities of Baltimore apply to Detroit as well. That’s right. Think about it.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? In Baltimore, I’d start by working at the Beehive coworking space , attending some Bmore on Rails events , searching for other technically-themed meetups , visiting the Node , and getting involved with Betascape.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3 Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25 billion). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA).

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Yet our firm has had some of its biggest wins historically on a national basis: Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Baltimore (BillMeLater), NYC (DealerTrack, UGO), Las Vegas (HealthDataInsights), Los Angeles (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar, Maker Studios), Scottsdale (PF Changs) and even internationally (LastMinute.com, DataSift).

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Why I’m Turning Over a New Leaf & Refocusing My Energy

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I also strongly encourage people to read as a companion book Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book Between the World and Me describing his life growing up in poor Black neighborhoods in Baltimore and then his journey to NYC. Neither book sugar coats their personal journeys or lays out the fabric of America as a perfect place.