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

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. Eric, love the blog.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: StrongSalt

Austin Startup

Ed Yu , CEO and co-founder of StrongSalt The Forrest Four-Cast: February 3, 2020 Is it possible for companies to protect their customers with data privacy that complies with regulations and is easy for developers to use? StrongSalt Co-Founder and CEO Ed Yu says yes it is. “Encryption sucks and we fix that.”?—?

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Well, it seems to make sense…

Life Beyond Code

First, Google is still the leader in the search. Sumukh was doing some research on Apple and he asked me if I knew about the third co-founder of Apple. I learned that there was indeed a third co-founder of Apple – Ronald Wayne. Founders know that their position gets diluted. Example 2: Conclusion.

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My observations of people starting up

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I guess that I was searching for fame and fortune, but ended up spending lots of time over theoretical ideas. Here are my observations of people trying to start up: Finding co-founders is harder than you think, there’s a reason why there are events just for finding co-founders. Yep, the best hands down.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.) I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. I guess if youve run a pattern across the middle with Ray Lewis waiting to knock your head off, a 6 minute pitch in front of a bunch of geeks is a piece of cake.

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Personalized Search

BeyondVC

Google just launched a new version of personal search based on user preferences. In early 2000, we seeded a Xerox PARC spin-out called Outride (formerly called Groupfire) which aimed to bring personal search to the web by learning from a surfer’s prior searches or his workgroup or community’s prior searches.

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