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10 Digital Startup Conferences You Should Attend This Year

YoungUpstarts

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Here are the top 10: 1.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Our name, Lubanzi, comes from a wandering dog that followed me and my co-founder on a 6 day, 100 mile trip hiking across South Africa’s remote Wild Coast. I came up with the name Flauk (like a flock of birds) because our business centers around being the entrepreneur’s team, or flying V. Ironistic was born!

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Pandere Shoes, Anchorage Startups, and Techstars

Feld Thoughts

I met the co-founder Laura Oden when I was in Anchorage last month to speak at the Accelerate Alaska event. She described how she met her founders at Techstars Startup Weekend in 2016. The founders loved where they lived and put together a support team of shoe experts and designers in Boston, France, and Portugal.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

As European talent in the form of startups and entrepreneurs continue to flock towards the USA, the question remains: why? Many entrepreneurs claim that there’s just not enough money, and that investors in Europe fear failure. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs. Is it attitude or is it money?

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , the Porto, Portugal-based startup is nearing its full launch date, and already has had more than 12,000 beta users sign up to choose from a selection of renowned professional bettors to copy. Tell us your favorite thing about being in Porto, Portugal. Looking lost?

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SXSW Pitch Finalists: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , the Porto, Portugal-based startup is nearing its full launch date, and already has had more than 3,500 beta users sign up to choose from a selection of renowned professional bettors to copy. Tell us your favorite thing about being in Porto, Portugal. Looking lost?

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Fast-paced, thought-provoking and social, this Ignite features presentations from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs ready to share their lessons learned. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark.