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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Although Syracuse offers a heavy amount of help, students are able to maintain 100% equity in their companies, making this a valuable opportunity for entrepreneurial-minded Syracuse students. Current participants include Craftistas, CrowdRouser, and Flat Shoes Tattoos.

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SXSW Startups: My SideKick

Austin Startup

For about a year and a half, I worked in downtown Detroit and it was a 10-minute walk to and from my office. Anyone you surround yourself with, whether advisors or mentors, biz partners, potential hires, programmers, business incubator, anyone you give equity to, etc.?—?treat I was harassed daily, no matter what route I took.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

The Bing Fund will invest $50,000-$100,000 in early-stage startups, through standard convertible notes (loans that convert to equity at Microsoft’s option). After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund. Skip to secondary content.

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure. Who knows exactly how these factors combine to booststartups in Silicon Valley and squish them in Detroit, but itsclear they do from the number of startups per capita in each. Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

500,000 to Detroit. We didn't want people not having their equity. We didn't want people not having equity out the door. I put two million into the city of New York, to be able to house workers on the front line through a union called SEIU and put in like. I think a million, a million and a half to Los Angeles.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. And the equity in their house isn’t rising. It will impact retail.

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Why John Frankel Leaned in Early on Klout and Cornerstone OnDemand and What He Sees Next

Both Sides of the Table

10:30 Question from the chat: How do you define the difference between traditional VC and private equity? Thank you also to Detroit Venture Partners. 1:19:15 Thank you to Walker Corporate Law and Detroit Venture Partners. 5:30 John: Brands with a proven track record are attracting capital. What’s your take on that?