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Announcing our investment in DemandStar, a marketplace for government procurement  

Version One Ventures

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . It should come as no surprise that government procurement is riddled with inefficiency. P.S. They’re hiring ! .

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.

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Out of the Crisis #15: Lenore Estrada on her SF New Deal, serving the hungry, and civic engagement

Startup Lessons Learned

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Lenore Estrada is one of those people.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. Mayors don’t build startup cities.

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5 Best Canadian Cities For Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. Refunds can be as high as 65% of the R&D cost.

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Trust, But Verify

Seeing Both Sides

  The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was.   In truth, our industry is built on a trust model.   Prudence wins out over blind trust.