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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? Make extra cash to help with those expensive holiday costs and maybe even help you put some money back in your wallet so you don’t start the New Year off broke!

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Startup Lessons Learned

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

New York is now the second-most-active tech ecosystem in the US on all key metrics, after the Bay Area. New York venture capitalists like HOF Capital recognize this trend, and more and more of us are opening our doors to invest in startups with international roots. Founders’ determination.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Determined Founders. They burnt their ships behind them.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Determined Founders. They burnt their ships behind them.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

Teams that just two or three weeks ago seemed to be foundering pulled off some amazing comebacks. Professor Jeremy Weinstein , a co-instructor for the class who recently served as deputy U.S. I started looking forward to each Thursday at 4:30 p.m. Thursday’s season finale did not disappoint. Team Space Evaders: Reducing space junk.

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Startup Lessons Learned

Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark. Co-founder, Polyvore. Founder, Monsoon and Badmash. Founder, Tout. Founder, Crowdvine. phdc Flip 'n' Learn Shivani Khanna.