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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Boston University’s business incubator has produced numerous success stories, including HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals with two drugs in Stage 2 clinical development to treat blood disorders and viral-related cancers, as well as Modular Genetics, a biotechnology company focused on sustainable gene engineering. Syracuse Student Sandbox.

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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! There is nothing viral! 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. Not really.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 8) Angry Birds.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City. 3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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How to Use Your Content Platforms to Gain Valuable Customer Insights

Duct Tape Marketing

Which blog posts get the most shares, views, or impressions on your blog and across your social networks? Diana attended Fordham University and now lives in New York City. Customer Experiences Go Viral on Social Media Platforms Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing. Blog Topics.