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Is North America Still a Startup Heaven?

The Startup Magazine

But, what does this mean for the North American startup landscape? North America is not just about Silicon Valley. For years, Silicon Valley has been synonymous with the North American startup scene. Over the past few years, the number of entrepreneurs launching or moving their startups up north is rising, making Canada a new startup Mecca. The post Is North America Still a Startup Heaven? The world’s startup landscape keeps evolving.

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Ten Austin Companies Make Deloitte’s North America Technology Fast 500 List

SiliconHills

Ten Austin-based companies made Deloitte’s “North America Technology Fast 500,” an annual ranking of the fastest-growing North American companies in the technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech sectors.

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Entrepreneur Interview: Six Nations’ Jason Hill and his Winning Burger Combo

The Startup Magazine

A drive across the North American landscape inevitably leads to one of countless exit ramps that spiral onto neon-lit roads lined with fast food restaurants of every description.

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21 Teams Gather at Capital Factory to Hack Daimler North America’s Voice Technology for Truck…

Austin Startup

21 Teams Gather at Capital Factory to Hack Daimler North America’s Voice Technology for Truck Report On Friday, July 19th a group of 77 ambitious developers, designers and entrepreneurs gathered at Capital Factory to participate in the Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) Hackathon. DTNA is the largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in North America, and the market leader making the most advanced and fuel efficient trucks on the road.

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The State of Business To Business (B2B) Content Marketing In North America

crowdSPRING Blog

MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute recently released a report on 2013 Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends for North America. It’s a fascinating report with insights into the challenges faced by B2B marketers and how they are leveraging content marketing to promote their businesses. Although the sample size (1,416 respondents) wasn’t huge, it represented respondents from a range of industries, functional areas and company sizes.

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First Business Trip to Hong Kong? What to Know

The Startup Magazine

Attire follows suit, literally, though the norm is a bit more formal than in Western Europe or North America. This may come as an unpleasant surprise to arrivals used to more forgiving milieus, such as North America’s dynamic, failure-tolerant startup scene. There’s nowhere in the world quite like Hong Kong.

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State of the Digital Music Industry 2014: An Insider’s View

VC Cafe

Vickie Nauman, North America President of 7Digital and a keynote speaker at the upcoming MATI conference ( www.adtechsummit.com ), believes music licensing and royalties need to adapt to the digital era. Music is everyone’s favorite example of digital disruption done wrong. After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 billion. Now the focus is on digital music GROWTH.

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What Modern Tool Drives Crown Agencies? Board Portal Software

The Startup Magazine

For these reasons, Crown agencies across North America have turned to board portal software. Legal insight Technology Board of directors carbon footprint Cloud Collaboration communications designing encryption expenses governance hardware Laptop Newspaper North America Organization paperless portal software securityThe board of directors at Crown agencies needs to know that their communication tools are powerful and modern, but also totally secure.

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Future Tech Trends And How They Will Influence IT Managers

The Startup Magazine

90% – Percentage of major banks in North America and Europe that are exploring blockchain solutions (3). Every year, the “next big thing” in technology is introduced and all sorts of forecasts about its impact on the future are published. But the following tech trends have withstood the test of time and worth and are here to stay. So how might these tech trends change the way IT managers work in the future? Artificial Intelligence.

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How To Find The Right North American Shipping Courier

YoungUpstarts

With these tips, choosing a shipping company that will help you ship your products from North America to the rest of the world has never been easier. The post How To Find The Right North American Shipping Courier appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Part 2 of Interview with Stephan Sieber of Unit4

deal architect

The Unit4 brand is much stronger in Europe than in North America. In fairness, North America is already around 15%. This continues our interview with the new CEO of Unit4. Part 1 ran yesterday. What's your vision for changing that? Industry Commentary

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The Real Deal: Steve Mann on Neuro-Digital Marketing and the Quest for Joy

deal architect

This time it is Steve Mann, former CMO of LexisNexis North America and who now leads AbleBrains LLC, a digital marketing consultancy. This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well. The Real Deal: Guest Columnist

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Virgin Atlantic Announces Direct Flights from Austin to London

SiliconHills

Austin, you’ve got the #greenlight to travel in style to the UK from May 25th as I am THRILLED to announce that Virgin Atlantic will be launching services from Austin to London,” Simon Hawkins, head of Virgin Atlantic North America, posted to LinkedIn. “I’m

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5 Flocks Of Investors Looking For An Enticing Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The ACA is the angel industry alliance, which now includes a directory to more than 250 angel groups and 14,000 individual angels across North America.

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Tesla Officials Provide More Details on $1 Billion Cybertruck Plant Proposed for Austin Area

SiliconHills

Rohan Patel, Tesla’s director of policy and business development, and Valerie Workman, Tesla’s head of human resources for North America, appeared via video before the Travis County Commissioners Court Tuesday afternoon.

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car2go Offering Mercedes-Benz Vehicles in Austin

SiliconHills

car2go, the largest flexible one-way carsharing service in North America, announced this week plans to offer Mercedes-Benz vehicles in Austin and other cities. The company, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler North America Corp, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, announced that the majority of its 5,500 car fleet in North America will be comprised […] The post car2go Offering Mercedes-Benz Vehicles in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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MobilityX means transportation innovation and opportunity for Austin

Austin Startup

Capital Factory and Daimler-owned moovel North America (N.A.) have partnered to create MobilityX, a transportation technology accelerator. Continue reading on Austin Startups ». mobility mercedes startup austin transportation

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7 Reasons To Think Globally While Still New And Local

Startup Professionals Musings

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one.

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Austin and Dallas Make the Short List for Amazon’s HQ2

SiliconHills

Texas is the only state to have two cities as finalists for Amazon’s second headquarters in North America. Austin and Dallas made the list of the top 20 cities in North America under consideration for the $5 billion project, which is expected to create as many as 50,000 jobs. Amazon reported it reviewed 238 proposals […]. The post Austin and Dallas Make the Short List for Amazon’s HQ2 appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin

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What is Content Strategy, Anyway?

Rembrandt Communications

3 Tips to Make Your Business Words Boost Sales According to the Content Marketing Institute’s “BtoB Content Marketing 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America,” “70% of B2B marketers are creating more content than they did one year ago.”

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The Top 5 Things to Look for in a Good Copywriter Today

Rembrandt Communications

Tips to save thousands of dollars, hours and effort in the months ahead There are two factors marketers attribute their success per The Content Marketing Institute/MarketingProfs’ B2B Content Marketing 2017 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America.

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RideScout and GlobeSherpa Rebrand as moovel

SiliconHills

based GlobeSherpa are merging under one brand: moovel North America. From now on, the company will be known as moovel North America. By HOJUN CHOI Reporter with Silicon Hills News Austin-based RideScout and Portland Ore.-based Under the rebranding, Joseph Kopser, co-founder of RideScout, will be taking on the position of president of moovel Group GmbH, a […] The post RideScout and GlobeSherpa Rebrand as moovel appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

There are four main types of venture studios: Tech transfer studios , such as America’s Frontier Fund , work with companies and/or government labs to source ideas and intellectual property. This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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Accelerators Have Resources To KickStart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2020 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Fun Tidbit 1: Europe and North America are of similar importance in terms of revenue (40% EMEA / 41% N. America in 2019) though in terms of nights booked Europe was 43% and N. Airbnb’s public S-1 dropped Monday afternoon.

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Finding The Right Angel Investor For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

The ACA is the angel industry alliance, which now includes a directory to more than 275 angel groups and 14,000 individual angels across North America. ACA member angel groups represent a wealth of accredited investors and are funding approximately 800 new companies each year, and managing an ongoing portfolio of more than 5,000 companies throughout North America.

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Q4 2020 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

For a second consecutive year , Jobber was named one of the fastest-growing companies in North America on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500. . Happy new year! We hope you’re well rested and recharged from the holidays!

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We are Adding a Principal to Our Investment Team

View from Seed

You will be based in the NYC office but will be able to pursue investments across North America. Who We Are Looking For. You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do.

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Alternatives to Layoffs in Tech: Maintaining a Stable Workforce

ReadWriteStart

Coca-Cola offered voluntary separation packages to 4000 employees in North America, and it included some major incentives like at least a year’s pay plus a 20% bump. The tech industry is volatile and subject to the whims of the market.

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Four predictions for 2015

Version One Ventures

We’ve seen Bitcoin adoption by major retailers like Overstock.com and Dell, but there’s still too much volatility and regulatory uncertainty for Bitcoin to be used as a mainstream currency in North America anytime soon. We shouldn’t look for much traction with the current use case (payments in North America), as most consumers in North America don’t view the current payment system as broken and in need of a fix.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 500,000 members worldwide, perhaps the largest Angel investment community in the world. ACA membership includes more than 200 angel groups and 20 affiliate organizations across North America.

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Oracle Launches Startup Cloud Accelerator Program in Austin

SiliconHills

The Austin program is Oracle’s first residential accelerator program in North America. Watch out Austin there’s a new accelerator in town. Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., on Tuesday, announced it’s launching a residential Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator program in Austin. Oracle has eight other global locations in Bangalore, Bristol, Mumbai, Delhi, Paris, Sao Paulo, […].

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Off to the Races with Team Nextview

View from Seed

Finally, while my home base is San Francisco, I am investing across North America along with the rest of our team as we believe great ideas and inspiring founders transcend geography.

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One year into Fund III: some high level stats

Version One Ventures

We are geographically agnostic, though focused on North America with main “hubs” in SF, Toronto, NYC, and Seattle. A few weeks ago I shared my reflections on my first year as a GP. Along with all the well wishes (thank you!!), many asked what Version One is investing in these days. Our portfolio companies aren’t as quick to publicize fundraising rounds like they used to and as such, we’re not making as many public announcements about our activity.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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The most successful Bitcoin / Blockchain company won’t look like any we have today

Version One Ventures

First, Bitcoin startups that focus on commerce/payment solutions in North America are competing with existing products with strong network effects. The first wave of Bitcoin apps went after payment-related use cases in North-America and hence against strong existing network effects. The Blockchain is such an innovative and fundamentally transformative technology, but Bitcoin and Blockchain apps have not yet scaled as much as I would have liked.

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A first-time founder’s guide to term sheets: What’s a convertible loan?

The Next Web

In North America, seed funds now represent 67 percent of all VC funds, up from 33 percent in 2008. Andrej Kiska is an Associate at Credo Ventures. In the past five years, seed-stage investing has experienced a boom. The CEE region is no different: according to European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, the number of seed deals has increased 19x over the past four years.

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Startup Stories: Zagster’s mission to make bike sharing simple

The Next Web

Founded in Philadelphia in 2007 as CityRyde and now headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zagster helps property managers, hotels, businesses and universities across North America offer bike sharing programs to tenants, employees, guests and students. Startup Stories is a series of short documentaries about TechStars companies, hosted exclusively by The Next Web. This time, we’re taking a look at bike sharing startup Zagster.

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10 Positive Signs For Starting Your Own Business Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Crowd funding is setting new records worldwide, with $17 billion from North America alone, and VCs poured another $100 billion more into small growth companies last year.

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There’s a perfect storm brewing for SaaS startups in Asia

The Next Web

For starters, with around 60 percent of the total global market volume in 2012, North America is still the largest and most mature economy for SaaS services. Pieter Walraven is the co-founder of Pie, a Singapore-based SaaS startup. As an Asia-based SaaS business founder, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked: “Why did you base your startup in Asia, and not the US?” It’s an appropriate question.

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Hitting the ground: What it takes to launch Uber, Hailo and Citymapper in a new city

The Next Web

Beyond North America, Uber has only just got started. For most tech companies, expansion is all about country-by-county localization. When your service requires a city-by-city approach, the operation can be far bigger and more complicated. To find out what such a granular approach to expansion involves, we spoke to three companies at different stages in their growth but all focused on conquering the world, a city at a time. Uber Having raised a total of $1.5

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 200,000 members worldwide. ACA membership includes more than 160 angel groups and 20 affiliate organizations across North America.

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Isidoro Quiroga: “South America’s Warren Buffet” Mogul Makes Next Move

The Startup Magazine

Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders.