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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Boulder, CO. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., Austin, TX.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., with their startups growing by 81.2

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? To some extent – of course they are. But this time there really is something happening in LA. It is different. More substantive.

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. These are sorted by the year that we funded them. 1: SendGrid (2009). 3: Twilio (2009).

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

NAME THAT TECH TUNE. Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Mobile News.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., with their startups growing by 81.2

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. I believe investors had forced him to do this.

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