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10 Ways To Win In 2014: An Entrepreneurs’ Guide To A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

2014 will be a formative year for new business owners and early-stage entrepreneurs. Continuing into 2014, there will likely be a shift in the role of the investor into a more hands-on player in businesses. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community. by Melissa Thompson, CEO of TalkSession.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while being challenged to solve some of the toughest problems.”. It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Project Agrippa – Logistics and Sustainment in IndoPacific.

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Microsoft’s Purchase Of Minecraft Maker Mojang Shows Comitment To Building Cross-Platform Appeal

YoungUpstarts

Since July 2014 Nadella has evangelized a device-and-platform-agnostic strategy for Microsoft. in August 2014, Microsoft’s acquisition of Mojang creates an audience, to which Microsoft can serve ads for its library of software and content, or create opportunities to revitalize the flagging performance of the Windows mobile device ecosystem.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur today is that you can lead in countering these challenges, and actually changing the way we think and behave in business, in our community, and our society.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. And that is what we’ll do.” Now they are partners.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 13

TechEmpower

This is largely the result of a considerable community effort over the past few months to identify and fix dozens of frameworks, some of which we haven’t been able to successfully test since 2014. We consider ourselves very fortunate that our project has received the attention that it has from the web framework community.