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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

Due to lowering capital costs, global competition that spans industries and continents, quicker market validations, and facilitated iteration, the nature of the investment game has changed. Cheaper capital costs. As it happens, in the last 30 years, available capital has tripled to stand at roughly 10 times global GDP.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

Housing and rent prices are at unbelievable levels, and the difficulties of such a high cost of living are real and growing, issues. This, along with over 800 million dollars raised by Utah-based companies that year ranked Utah as the seventh highest in the country, an impressive achievement for a state with just three million people.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

Housing and rent prices are at unbelievable levels, and the difficulties of such a high cost of living are real and growing, issues. This, along with over 800 million dollars raised by Utah-based companies that year ranked Utah as the seventh highest in the country, an impressive achievement for a state with just three million people.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. Versatile has built out a suite of no-cost portfolio acceleration services to help its companies succeed.

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Entrepreneurial events firm Summit Series acquires Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort for $40m

The Next Web

About an hour’s drive from Salt Lake City, lies Utah’s Powder Mountain. After 5-years of hosting epic events for entrepreneurs including Summit Basecamp , Summit at Sea and DC10 , The Summit Series team decided it was time to grow roots, and found its home in a place called Eden, Utah.

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Make ‘Em Say Wow: 11 Tips For Building A Strong Service Team

YoungUpstarts

At Deer Valley Ski Resort in Utah, the staff help you find the missing item and then give you a coupon for a free hot chocolate. It cost me hundreds more to buy a ticket and use the voucher. Your Service, a global service education and management consultancy firm with offices in the United States and Singapore. Not at all.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

Housing and rent prices are at unbelievable levels, and the difficulties of such a high cost of living are real and growing, issues. This, along with over 800 million dollars raised by Utah-based companies that year ranked Utah as the seventh highest in the country, an impressive achievement for a state with just three million people.