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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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How To Find The Best City For Your Type Of Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Do my startup’s lawyers need to be local?

Austin Startup

Silicon valley startups generally use silicon valley startup lawyers. For startups with less dense ecosystems than Silicon Valley or Austin, however, the cost to going local can be much higher. And it works just fine. foreign specialized lawyers is about tradeoffs.

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Is North America Still a Startup Heaven?

The Startup Magazine

North America is not just about Silicon Valley. For years, Silicon Valley has been synonymous with the North American startup scene. Silicon Valley all about innovation and thinking big and yet, it’s cultivating this homogenous culture. Let’s find out. The Rise of the Canadian Startup Scene.

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Keep Austin Weird vs Ride-Hailing Giants

Austin Startup

The first casualty of this return has been the Phoenix-based ride-hailing company Fare, which ceased operations here on June 6. Their return is reminiscent of the parable of the Prodigal Son(s), as both companies have been enthusiastically re-embraced despite their ugly departure last year.

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Is the Unicorn Endangered or Extinct?

Professor VC

I doubt Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures believed that a horse with a horn existed when she wrote Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in late 2013, but she probably had no idea that it would become a hot buzzword in Silicon Valley and hit the cover of mainstream business press, Fortune Magazine. He is lost.

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The #1 Mistake Investors Make (And What To Do About It)

Growthink Blog

angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley. Most are centered in the main entrepreneurial hubs - Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Austin, Phoenix, Salt Lake - among other locales, and generally involve groups of individual investors coming together to review and diligence deals in a group review format.