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[US] [Event] Launch Tennessee’s Southland Conference To Highlight South’s Top 50 Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

Launch Tennessee , a public-private partnership that supports the creation and development of high-growth companies in Tennessee, will draw attention on the top 50 early-stage companies in the South during Southland , its new conference highlighting the best in technology and Southern culture in Nashville on June 12-13.

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I’m getting excited about this year’s Venture Atlanta conference

Jeff Hilimire

The event is on October 21st and 22nd at the Georgia Aquarium. My favorite part is the early stage companies and the courage it takes for them to get up and present to 700 people! Venture Atlanta presenting companies: Early Stage. Should be fun, sign up and meet me there! Alii Healthcare. Crescerance.

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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

So I actually got involved being a music pastor at a church in Georgia. And I think that in the early days it was sort of novel that people had content, and obviously like you said, the search engines didn’t have as much content to chew through so they would surface your content. Lance Cummins: I got a real job.

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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Steve : … If I remember, you and I brought on Georgia Tech, and then University of Michigan and then how many more? The Origins of National Science Foundation I-Corps.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas is well capitalized Silicon Valley has traditionally received a disproportionate share of private, early-stage funding compared to other geographies given its density of firms focused on these types of investments and the number of start-ups and private companies in the region. There is room for everyone in Texas.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

If we’re correct, we can compress the time for commercializing scientific breakthroughs and reduce the early stage risks of these new ventures. Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Mynatt ( mynatt@cc.gatech.edu ); Georgia Tech Research Corporation. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

He went to the same school I did, Georgia Tech, and studied electrical engineering. On the one hand, I do think that there's a role for basically high risk tolerance faster, like early stage investment mentality and research and academia. You want to talk a little bit about that? Robert Rhinehart : I did.