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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

As I like to say when asked, “For entrepreneurs you generally need to go to 2-3 cities max and probably pitch 5-15 investors. You can usually find 2-3 investors per location but it’s not uncommon to see VCs in: Boston, NY, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, South Bend, Austin, Houston, and so forth.

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Want $50k in Seed Funding? Apply now.

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A new program that began earlier this year is looking for five IT-centric entrepreneurs to receive seed funds along with a series of services. Located in an underused mixed-use office building in downtown St. Any firm can apply, but must agree to move to St. That, plus a layoff and reassignment of its St.

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Finding The Perfect Startup Co-Founder

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Sometimes even the most dedicated, uber-competent entrepreneur doesn’t have everything it takes to ensure startup success. Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than tw Shahab o years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups. Louis, and has worked with Kaviani. And don’t divide the equity too early.

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Finding The Perfect Startup Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

Sometimes even the most dedicated, uber-competent entrepreneur doesn’t have everything it takes to ensure startup success. Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than two years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups. Louis, and has worked with Kaviani. And don’t divide the equity too early.

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MassChallenge + Stadia Ventures Team Up for Sports Tech

Austin Startup

With a new track focused on the emerging field of Sports Tech starting this year, MassChallenge and Stadia Ventures (“Stadia”) are collaborating to create an end-to-end pipeline of support for entrepreneurs by bridging talent, access to mentors, funding and relationships for founders building the next generation of sports and esports companies.

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Transcript of Business Lessons Learned on the Baseball Field

Duct Tape Marketing

I was working in St. Louis that year and so I was in visiting with the Cardinals, which doesn’t make people happy in Kansas City. It gives me no equity to try to push on things that I’m not going to get an answer to. I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before, I guess because I wasn’t.