The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

On the other side of the spectrum, the idea of finding a unicorn has attracted many investors toward the much riskier venture capital and emerging technologies. Over the past decade, advancing technologies and social consciousness have been causing unprecedented and exciting shifts in every sector of the economy, not just the tertiary.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

There are now many metro areas with growing infrastructure and increasingly skilled work forces that can support tech startups. In large part due to the University of Texas at Austin and other universities’ influence, Austin is known for having an educated workforce. The city is renowned as a center for tech entrepreneurship.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

But as some of us may know, Twitter started from very humble beginnings as a side project within the struggling podcasting company Odeo by founders Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone. Books & Reviews Biz Stone book book review startup technology Twitter'

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2020

On Monday, June 1st, I told Amy that I wanted to engage deeply in helping eliminate racism in the United States. I’ve been involved in gender inequity issues since I joined the National Center for Women & Information Technology board in 2005 shortly after it was formed. The hurt is everywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2012

After all, Silicon Valley been held up as a shining example as a hotbed for startups and many clamor to copy its success in positioning themselves as a similar scene for innovation and technological entrepreneurship. That entrepreneurs must be the ones who lead the community (as opposed to, for example, governmental forces), 2.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

There are now many metro areas with growing infrastructure and increasingly skilled work forces that can support tech startups. In large part due to the University of Texas at Austin and other universities’ influence, Austin is known for having an educated workforce. The city is renowned as a center for tech entrepreneurship.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

by Kenneth Coats, founder of eKnowID. It’s imperative to perform a due diligence check before entering into any business relationship — especially for an entrepreneur. For example, according to ADP’s 2009 hiring index , 46 percent of résumés reviewed showed discrepancies. Research shows they’re not alone.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is a question startup founders ask themselves multiple times a week. It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. How are we doing?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

Company founders originally called it Evelozcity and imagined a subscription-based business model in which they produced electric vans and trucks for people who enjoy outdoor activities. The United States Army has used Canoo EVs for “analysis and demonstration.” Q: What vehicles is Canoo developing?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. But with the pandemic showing no signs of abating in the United States and elsewhere, they’ve been forced to rethink their business plans. Technical Challenges.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm. This would arise as a result of a founder improperly “moonlighting” (i.e., Any IP created by a founder (e.g.,

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. Are you bringing an army of algorithm authors to attack a sleep non-technical industry? Trying to recruit a co-founder or key-employee? million acres of land.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Over the past month, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of many conversations outside of the technology world. Unfortunately not for groundbreaking technology, but for rampant sexual harassment and predatory behavior. When I started my career, I never envisioned starting a fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. Far from it.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Written by David Shelters , managing director of Bangkok, Thailand-based investment banking and financial advisory firm Karon Business Consulting, the book should be an eye-opener for aspiring and new technology entrepreneurs and can help you navigate the dangerous waters known as venture capital.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

We’ve also seen extensive use of technology and increased remote working. Relationship troubles and high tensions during the pandemic will lead to an abundance of divorce filings in the United States. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

As an industry, VC essentially acts as a broker between investment banks, who can’t invest in risky startups due to laws on loan interest, and entrepreneurs who desperately need capital. Expanding tech talent. It’s an aging adage but it’s true; tech talent can increasingly be found outside of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In the inaugural American Express Entrepreneurial Spirit Trendex , the study, which polled 1,000 small and mid-sized businesses, revealed notable insights about the entrepreneurial spirit in the United States. It would be difficult to find a small business that didn’t need to adapt their operations in some form due to the pandemic.

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The Next Web

MAY 23, 2013

Kathryn Minshew is the CEO & Founder of The Muse , a career platform and job discovery tool serving more than 4 million professionals worldwide. Kathryn has spoken at MIT and Harvard, appeared on CNN and Fox, and contributes on career and entrepreneurship topics to the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. The following are sources of free information, training, counseling, and/or technical assistance to help women entrepreneurs start, expand, and sustain their own businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. There are close to 30 million small businesses in the United States that, collectively, employ more than half of our nation’s working population. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

she / her) - Senior Vice President, Global Technology and Innovation - Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce | LinkedIn Will Young - CEO & Co-founder - Sana Benefits | LinkedIn Andrea L. Thomaz - co-Founder, CEO - Diligent Robotics, Inc. Hurt - CEO and Co-founder - data.world | LinkedIn Dana M.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. It’s your baby. You took the biggest leap of faith.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In an article titled “Where Lying Was Business as Usual,” Business Week reviewed a book on the Wedtech Scandal, a Washington scandal of the late eighties in which a few government officials fed fat contracts to a dubious supplier. There are scores of individuals who equate diligence with drudgery. Accountability.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In an article titled “Where Lying Was Business as Usual,” Business Week reviewed a book on the Wedtech Scandal, a Washington scandal of the late eighties in which a few government officials fed fat contracts to a dubious supplier. There are scores of individuals who equate diligence with drudgery. Accountability.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In ” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada. Version One Ventures does not look at founders in a gender specific light.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It’s accepted that the more than 27 million small businesses operating today in the United States form the bedrock U.S. billion by the beginning of 2012, payment card trade journal Nilson Report estimates that approximately 20 million small businesses in the United States still don’t accept debit or credit cards.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Rossanna Ceccato is the founder of Redress, a disruptive clothing platform that helps women renew and refresh their wardrobes through dress swaps. billion pieces of clothing that sit idle in closets all over the United States while at the same time eliminating the tremendous amount of clothing and textile waste that ends up in landfills.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story: .

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” In the United States, this is a limited liability corporation, or LLC. If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

I did a lot of technical interviewing. We noticed a clear need for an evolution of wallet styles and technologies and ran with it. 4- Due to lack representation in the skincare industry. We started our alcohol delivery service in 2014 on the basis that alcohol is one of the most consumed beverages in the United States.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

by Jennifer Sultzaberger, founder of #vidit. Currently more than 80 percent of websites in the United States are not using responsive design websites (RDW). If you want to be found online today, you need to be thinking in terms of online visibility not traditional Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

For more information, visit atxstartupcrawl.com SXSW Pitch (formerly SXSW Accelerator) SXSW Pitch is the official SXSW platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors. The SXSW Startup Crawl!

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