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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

For example, my firm at the time, Continental Illinois Venture Corporation, the wholly owned SBIC of Chicago’s Continental Bank, had many successful investments. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. Silicon Valley firms also did many non-tech deals.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

ReadWriteStart

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. Next Chris Ruder from Chicago, Illinois, pitched Spikeball , a new volleyball-esque game that is being played at camps and college campuses. I like these two strategies.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Business Schools And Early Stage Entrepreneurship

ReadWriteStart

Then Jay Dias from Barrington, Illinois, presented Eventbin.com , a site where she plans to bring together discounts and coupons from numerous vendors, all targeted towards moms. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Eventbin.com. Jay's age band is 18-45.

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Ranking — And Understanding — The World’s Top Startup Hubs [Video]

ReadWriteStart

New research shows Silicon Valley still rules the startup world. Sure, Silicon Valley is far and away the strongest startup region anywhere. Did you know founders in Silicon Valley work longer hours than founders anywhere else? ” The Top 20: Silicon Valley, California. Chicago, Illinois.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. You were hanging out in Silicon Valley, I'm sure many people must have told you, "You’ve got to monetize this.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. We take the typical Aussie mentality of giving everyone “a fair go” and apply it to a global scale.

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The Best Places Worldwide to Start Your High-Growth Startup

Up and Running

To determine which cities made the cut, I turned to Compass’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report for 2015. Silicon Valley, California, USA. Coming in at number one (which should surprise absolutely no one) is Silicon Valley, California’s resident hub for startup and entrepreneurial innovation. Chicago, Illinois, USA.