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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world.

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How To Identify New Venture Assistance Organizations

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Accelerators Have Resources To KickStart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. By 2017, the tech industry in Toronto became one of North Americas fastest growing tech market, per a CBRE 2 018 North American Scoring Tech Talent report. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca Ontario a Tech Giant. The ICT industry accounts for 8.2%

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Boost Your New Venture By Teaming With An Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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What in the World ?!?

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Relevance: In 2011 (mentioned on page 18 if you view the presentation), Facebook only had 11% of the world’s internet users on on its platform – the figure was at 50% in North America. Why this acquisition? Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager.

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start. Or does it? I’ll come back to that later. One of the most common questions I get is “How do I find angel investors?”