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Learn To Code With One Month Rails

YoungUpstarts

You have a great idea for an app or a startup but you have have absolutely no programming skills. Part of Y Combinator ’s Summer 2013 batch of startups, The online resource for web development to date has taught more than 9,000 people Ruby on Rails, one of the most widely-used web programming technologies today.

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New Crowdfunding Site CrowdIt To Incorporate Mentoring, Networking

YoungUpstarts

. “Our vision for crowdfunding is about helping people achieve their dreams – be it starting a new business, developing a new invention or creating a technology start-up – and leveraging the power of the crowd beyond just the funding event,” says Jason Graf, co-founder and CEO for CrowdIt. “We

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Why Niche Start-Ups Are Making Waves In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Elizabeth in Missouri, Sunwest Bank, Provident Bancorp Inc., Dylan Taylor co-founded Voyager Holdings in October 2019 in order to provide infrastructure and funding support for start-ups working in the space industry sector. Here are a few of the companies doing just that in 2020: Small banking solutions.

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SXSW Startups: Healium

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. My co-founder, Dr. Jeff Tarrant , wrote the book on neuromeditation. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. He’s been a developer/hacker for over 15 years, and he sold his first startup, VinSolutions for $150 million. We didn’t talk about this ahead of time, but that’s what I’m standing in Kansas City, Missouri recording this. As a founder of a company, a CEO of a company.

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How to Raise Money as a First Time Founder

The Next Web

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. But since I’m relatively fresh off of the experience I get asked by first-time founders how they should go about raising money for their startup. Usually those aren’t first-time founders though.

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