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Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) Launches JumpStart Program for Early-Stage Startups

Early Growth Financial Services

Outsourced financial services firm adds low-priced, fixed cost offering to their suite of financial services to help support very early-stage startups nationwide. JumpStart was designed specifically for very early-stage startups, to provide essential financial services and build a solid financial foundation for young companies.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

1871 is home to hundreds of early stage, high growth digital startups and offers tremendous resources and programming to entrepreneurs at all stages of their startup journey. San Jose, CA. San Diego, CA. Chicago’s 1871, created in 2012 to support Chicago’s startup community, ranks 1st in the U.S. Sound good?

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

Professor VC

How would Billy Beane have done as an early stage investor? Im still not convinced that "gut feel" isnt a good way to invest at the early stage, but this can certainly get rid of over-thinking and provides diversification and investments in entrepreneurial teams that would be otherwise overlooked. ProfessorVC. at 2:32 PM.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Fundraising Now? Remember Morality Impacts Valuation

ReadWriteStart

Venture capitalists and early-stage investors have told all of us, founders are critical to a startup’s valuation. Harmonate, based in San Jose has developed private fund data operations tailored to the complexities of tracking social impact investing. Morality matters.

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

Roughly 1,200 miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for restrictions that will shutter many of the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries. Encouraged by the staggering growth of its local tech industry, Denver has made its commitment to fostering technology innovation clear.

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

I strongly believe (at least for very early stage technology ventures) that you will get diminishing returns and arguably negative returns once you get past an initial threshold of team, product, market and financial diligence. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Not exactly extensive diligence.