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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

In the past 5 years some of the best investors in the country could simply anoint winners by giving them large amounts of capital at high prices and then the media hype machine would create awareness, talent would race to join the next perceived $10bn winner and if the music never stops then everybody is happy. Except the music stopped.

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Austin in San Francisco

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” I vividly recall the moment when I connected on this level with Austin Gunter — our social media keymaster (are you the gatekeeper?), But he silently delayed that to see me wax on network latency and reading performance-analysis reports. But wait, what if Austin finds a hot new startup in San Francisco and bails on us?

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Of course you can have a few competitors and still find enough charges but once you’ve gotten 2–3 big players in any city it’s hard to imagine many more players building out as efficient of a charger network as the early innovator. There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service!

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Your Guide to the Complete Lean Startup Conference Program

Startup Lessons Learned

At your request, we’ve brought in speakers from all kinds of organizations --including young companies, Fortune 500s, mission-driven orgs, and government, and they create websites, apps, games, hardware, consumer goods, social services, media products and more. We’ve tagged the talks by topic , so you can zero in on what interests you most.

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[Singapore] Location Based Marketing Association Launches Local Chapter

YoungUpstarts

According to a statement from LBMA , Singapore was chosen as its new Asia hub due to the country’s high smartphone penetration and rich cross-section of LBS players from retailers, agencies, advertisers and media buyers, to software and services providers and wireless companies.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

If you enjoy the coffeehouse vibe, but hate the coffeehouse distractions, Coffee & Power in San Francisco is a great place to be a co-worker. Located in both San Francisco and San Jose (and soon to be Las Vegas), Citizen Space bills itself as simply, “a nicer place to work.” Coffee & Power. Citizen Space.

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Your Company Can Either Lead Sustainability Efforts Or Get Out Of The Way

YoungUpstarts

When Netflix began streaming media directly to customers in 2007, it changed the face of home entertainment. When Uber coordinated its first ride in San Francisco in 2010, it changed the transportation game. by Dan Lauer , founding executive director of UMSL Accelerate. Change is unavoidable in business.