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How We Fight – Cofounders in Love and War

Steve Blank

I often get asked about finding cofounders and I usually give the standard list of characteristics of what I look for in a founder. And I emphasize the value of a founding team with complementary skills sets – i.e. the hacker/hustler/designer cofounder archetype for web/mobile apps. Taking Time. Taking Time.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman). He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. But I have some.

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[Event] [Singapore] Techventure 2011 To Introduce Techventure Asiasons Innovation Awards

YoungUpstarts

With the theme “The New Age of Asian Innovation”, Techventure 2011 will be featuring a prominent host of speakers that includes Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Group CEO of regional telecoms giant SingTel Ms. Founder and managing director of Asiasons Capital , Jared Lim, agrees.

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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

In all seriousness, the Q&A panel session will include European entrepreneurs like Guillaume Decugis, who sold Musiwave for $125 million and is currently co-founder and CEO of Scoop.it, and Unity Technologies co-founder and CEO David Helgason (read our interview with him ).

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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

Up and Running

How a now-famous web company got funded by Mark Cuban. Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. Founded in 2012, FINEX Cast Iron Cookware Co. It just feels right,” says Mike Whitehead, FINEX founder. Other funding options that worked for companies.

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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

Tech ventures, some of whom were presenters at the earlier Demo Day, joined ventures in green energy and the life sciences. DiningCircle.com is aimed at handling real-time Web-enabled restaurant reservations. It is all about the Web. The second event was the annual Invest Midwest conference on Thursday. Louis tech investor.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their Goals for 2023

Hearpreneur

Our mission is to arm businesses with high-level information accuracy to avoid web lawsuits and, in turn, create a seamless web experience for disabled communities. In the next few years, I plan to continue educating myself on the latest renewable energy technologies and invest in green infrastructure projects. 22- Nailing SEO.