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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Climate tech – We have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change if startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

And he recognized it was making his startup feel and act like a big ponderous company. Most decisions in a startup must be made in the face of uncertainty. One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. The same is true in your company.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

Check out which Capital Factory startups are looking for you to join their team! Thrillbox Visual Semantics Visual Semantics builds cloud-based software to stream ‘predictive intelligence’ to AR/VR hardware and software applications primary for real time threat analysis. Talk To A Lawyer Now SkimKing, Inc.

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Texas Co-Working Right in Downtown Austin

Austin Startup

The other day I helped two of our coworkers, Meghan Jones and Deborah Toodle get their wordpress website started ([link] and yesterday I was at the bottom looking up at some of Austin’s most brilliant semantic web experts at an event we hosted for the semantic web community and the City of Austin.&#.

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How Startups Can Support Mental Wellbeing In This Moment

The Startup Magazine

Life as we know it is a far cry from life as we knew it, with sudden global shifts to supply chains and operating conditions impacting heavily upon startups. More than half of Canadian startups report their industry as being “affected significantly” by the pandemic, and perhaps even more concerning is the toll on mental wellbeing.