YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2014

The United States is not uniform in its friendliness toward small businesses, and some states make operating a business easier than others. There are many factors to consider in determining which state is the best to locate a new business. The state is geographically huge and boasts a diverse and growing population.

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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 In as much as a scheduled interview with an angel investor can be, talking with Boris about what it takes to spark the interest of a venture capital firm was a coincidence.

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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. They decide which VCs receive capital to invest in entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2013

A founding member of the Global Accelerator Network, the Brandery has been ranked as one of the top accelerators in the United States by the Kellogg School of Management/Kauffman Fellows/Tech Cocktail rankings. Applications are due by May 1, with early-admission decisions being made on April 15.

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VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. One of our biggest inspirations and favorite New Builders is Danaris Mazara of Sweet Grace Heavenly Cakes. She had $37 in food stamps to her name.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

Almost 30 years ago, my father decided to uproot the entire family from Taiwan to the United States so that his academically “inconsistent” son could have an education tolerant and perhaps even encouraging of his idiosyncrasies. Many arguments are fought about the “quality” of entrepreneurs and companies in Los Angeles.

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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. GEAR UP, Y’ALL.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service!

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

The Association of Enterprise Opportunities , a national organization that advocates for micro business development, states that roughly 8,000 business loan requests are declined each weekday in the United States. To increase success, CDFIs provide ongoing technical assistance and education to their business clients.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

A few caveats, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice, and it deals with law in the United States. The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. non-public technology. technology, business information. _.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

A network of accessible agents throughout the country allows people to redeem money transferred to them. Telemedicine: The United States and much of Europe has over 2 doctors/1000 people. The ethos behind microcredit has reached a market well beyond the poor, rural woman in an emerging market.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Austin-Based Venture Capital Firms There are a eleven venture capital firms based in Austin that are actively investing today, six of which are first funds. VC Firms Actively investing in Austin Companies Finally, there are a group of venture capital firms that are not based in Austin that are active investors here.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. Due to my effort I was featured on Inc, Iheart radio shows, the morning show by global news and many more. Photo Credit: Debjeet Gupta.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It took me some time to figure out a title and I eventually settled for “Building European Champions” as the region has proven its ability to generate very successful venture outcomes and will continue to be the birthplace of many successful technology companies. Why Eastern Europe? in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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Czech Republic Russia San Jose Europe 99

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. Venture Capital. (3).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I never paid my dues at a corporate job. I had a husband who was gone more hours than he was home, working at a technology startup while getting his MBA at night. Less than ten years later , I had taken my healthcare tech company from a concept to a business – a business that someone wanted to buy.

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Technical Review United States Bootstrapping Venture Capital 370

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). I don’t think very many people put young kids into taxis (due to trust), but they are quite comfortable doing this in an Uber. The Atlantic (3/25/12).

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

A network of accessible agents throughout the country allows people to redeem money transferred to them. Telemedicine: The United States and much of Europe has over 2 doctors/1000 people. The ethos behind microcredit has reached a market well beyond the poor, rural woman in an emerging market.

Africa 40

Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing.

Technical Review 175

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

Early Stage 60

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley?

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Europe Germany 185

David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks. Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. My favorite part of pitching to them was the due diligence process. Angels differ from venture capitalists in many ways. 51 percent). What impresses angels?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This data point indicates the importance of the business school network when founding a company, while also challenging the generalization that two or more MBA co-founders presents too much of a skill-set overlap. This is likely the case because of Stanford’s positioning in the Bay Area and the access to venture capital that accompanies it.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. New York has an extremely active Meetup culture; almost every night there are 3-10 tech-focused events.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

The image above shows how the stress of being the President of the United States can quickly age a person. How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Five of Steve Jobs’s Biggest Mistakes | Peter Sims-Harvard Business Review – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 108

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Make sure you’ve done the due diligence on all of these areas of your business. Pretend that you are the investor.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

COMMUNICATIONS GIANT ARRIS GROUP BUYS ISRAEL’S BIGBAND NETWORKS FOR $158 MLN. is acquiring digital-video networking company BigBand Networks Inc. The BIRD Foundation promotes collaboration between Israeli and American companies in various technological fields for the purpose of joint product development.

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Peru Technical Review North America 96

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” But is all of that changing? We think so.

Cofounder 20

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

NETWORK EQUIPMENT MAKER JUNIPER BUYS ISRAELI VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY FIRM ALTOR FOR $95 MLN. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. During my trip, I spoke to an older Indian couple in Mandalay who ran an antique shop that had gathered inches of dust due to lack of activity. Use a mobile phone to transfer money?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. During my trip, I spoke to an older Indian couple in Mandalay who ran an antique shop that had gathered inches of dust due to lack of activity. Use a mobile phone to transfer money?

Burma 40

Burma Rwanda United States SMS 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. During my trip, I spoke to an older Indian couple in Mandalay who ran an antique shop that had gathered inches of dust due to lack of activity. Use a mobile phone to transfer money?

Burma 40

Burma Rwanda United States SMS 40

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The prototype of a breakout technology company will continue to evolve from “geeks in a garage tinkering with transistors” to loosely - coupled gangs of media - savvy trendsetters that get the game of viral and cross - platform brand and buzz-building. Venture Capital will Rise Again. Venture capitalists invested $4.8

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