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SXSW Startups: CargoX

Austin Startup

The startup community and ecosystem is developed to a certain stage that does not currently provide long shots, which are possible in larger cities with better VC and investors background. Ljubljana really is the most beautiful city in the world, offering quick trips to the mountains or the seaside.

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A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network

Feld Thoughts

Some are major contributors to their startup communities. Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders. From that initial outreach, 16 high quality accelerator programs joined us to launch the network. Since then, accelerators have appeared all over the world. Some accelerators are incredibly high quality. Others are not.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. But many are. Fuzzy Governance.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. But many are. Fuzzy Governance.

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The Missing Piece

Austin Startup

If you follow the writings regarding the Austin ecosystem you’ve probably read debates about the absence of capital. Some founders argue that Austin lacks seed capital, most participants agree that there is a lack of later stage capital. Brad Feld argues that community is the cornerstone of success for an ecosystem.

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An Inside Look at Capital Factory’s Women in Tech Summit

Austin Startup

More than anything, the Summit was an unforgettable event for everyone involved, and like all events at Capital Factory, it was about building community and making connections. Interested in being a part of Capital Factory’s diversity and inclusion initiatives?

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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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