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Why That $1 Million Doesn’t Always Mean Your Crowdfunding Campaign Was A Success

YoungUpstarts

by Hannah Sieber, co-founder and COO of EcoFlow Tech. Before EcoFlow Tech, she led the San Francisco Center for Economic Development’s Southern China effort where she worked with Chinese companies across the Pearl River Delta on building and financing strategic projects in San Francisco.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. We were sued shortly after starting because there was an SOS Staffing in Denver that was publicly held. I chose DevBev Co. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- We also needed a domain name so making up a name was helpful there.

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Finance Fridays: Getting Started – Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment

Feld Thoughts

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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CO Impact Days: Unicorns, Zebras, Ponies, and Donkeys

Feld Thoughts

If you are interested in impact investing, I encourage you to join the Impact Finance Center (IFC) and presenting funders The Anschutz Foundation, Zoma Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation , Colorado Health Foundation , and Gary Community Investments at CO Impact Days 2017 , Nov 15-17, in Denver, Colorado.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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Protecting the Passion that Got You Into Business in the First Place

The Startup Magazine

By Kurt Rathmann, CEO and Co-Founder, ScaleFactor. As a former CPA who left the business world to help business leaders protect their passions, I’ve seen how easy it is for founders to lose sight of the reason they got started. However, I’ve also seen how founders were able to turn things around and get back on track.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. identify financing vehicles before you need them. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space. Co-working spaces seem to be evolving into the startup garages of the future.

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