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Co-founder Engaging Florida’s Innovation Ecosystem

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Brian Kornfeld is President and Co-Founder of Synapse , an innovation hub for entrepreneurs, investors, and governments in the state of Florida to share ideas, solve problems and ultimately provide an ecosystem that ensures everyone from pre-seed startups to exciting unicorns continue to flock to, grow within and re-invest in the Sunshine State.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6% of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA

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Founder Feedback. Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA. Founder Feedback gives you insights from the startup trenches. Applications to the Seattle Founder Institute are also due this Sunday, February 26th: click here to apply. Los Angeles. Mexico City. Rio de Janeiro. Washington DC.

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The Best 2 Hours I Spent On My Business

YoungUpstarts

by Josh Ludin, founder of the subscription box Blind Surprise. Josh Ludin is the founder of the subscription box Blind Surprise and writes about his path to making money online , and more importantly his mistakes to avoid, at NeverJobHunt.com. Let me tell you a quick story.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. Dan Stewart, from Tampa/St. Happy Grasshopper. iFood.tv.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. Instead spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lure the next big thing to town in the hope they will turn Tampa into the next tech center. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said.

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Entrepreneur Who Creates a New Kind of Social Family

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Andrew Machota the founder and CEO of New Town Connections has an organization that gives adults the opportunity to attend social events and make friends; something that is hard to do after school is over. He is a former businessman who left his job to begin this organization, which is based out of Tampa. Tell us your story.

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