The Startup Magazine

MARCH 5, 2020

With the average transaction price at $36,000 as of early 2020, paying cash for a new car is out of reach for a lot of people. This means loan financing is required, which can be tough to get if your credit record is less-than-acceptable to lenders. This is a legal obligation the co-signer will be required to fulfill if you fail.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. Importantly, ServiceMaster Restoration By Simons supports and engages in the communities they serve by giving back. TSM: Excellent.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. Enter Box.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. trillion in 2020. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the calendar-truthers will tell you that the switchover from 2020 to 2021 is more significant because that’s the *actual* beginning of the new decade, but come on, time is a flat circle and we all know moving from a —9 to —0 is a bigger deal. We’re just a few weeks from the end of the 2010’s.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Finding the right niche, and finding the community that this niche serves, is the way to make a small business a success. Here are a few of the companies doing just that in 2020: Small banking solutions. First Financial Bank, and Coastal Community Bank, and Neocova recently confirmed a series A funding round of $9.5m.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

I soon realized that I had as much passion for teaching as I do about finance and investment, and I knew that I had acquired the kind of insight that could help transform the lives of business professionals who were looking to survive in investment banking roles. Thanks to Mike Falahee, Marygrove Awnings Co. ! #7-

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Bitwise was shaping up to have a great 2020.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 21, 2024

My business was born of a desire to fast-track connection & trust building, so we can find individual and community strength. These platforms, while seemingly innocuous, are often hunting grounds for fraudsters aiming to exploit the emotions and finances of unsuspecting individuals. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The year 2020 can’t end quickly enough for most small business owners. It took over five years for the small business community to get back on track. Take care of the finances. Many of them are finding new opportunities by solving problems that didn’t exist, or weren’t priorities, at the start of 2020. By 2015, the U.S.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. They need to reduce volatility, be more bearish on what might happen, and also prioritize their obligations towards their employees, communities and themselves as people. (29:24) SA : I think he's great.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

DemoTunes is proposed to be a LinkedIn of the music industry where a million plus musicians would be uploading music, getting feedback from their community, as well as, and more importantly, from talent scouts and connoisseurs who can help them further their careers. How much time do you budget for red ink financing? I love the idea.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The first time I met Matan, Melio's co-founder and CEO, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small business stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. Let’s talk about your financing strategy. You can change lives through the combination of technology and finance.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When I went to MySpace, Chris DeWolfe, our co-founder and CEO, made safety a company-wide priority and we owned up to what we were doing poorly. JB: The next generation of great brands and businesses will be built on three pillars: content (watch, read, listen), community (engage, share, identify), and commerce (buy).

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve identified a wide range of organizations who are working on bridging the economic, cultural, and political gap between Israel, the Arab community, and the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”) through technology. I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. Apply here.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Although, my BHAG is to sell 10,000 planners to help people put their goals in writing by February 1st of 2020. To offset this, we have focused on finding investing partners who believe in our vision for TravelSOUL and in us as co-founders to bring that vision to life. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Ning Communities. On-line Communities. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A lot of these challenges became grossly apparent in 2020: social instability, climate crisis, public health crises, national security crises, disinformation. – SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks.

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