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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

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Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Boulder, CO. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality.

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A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. and the Sandbox Network.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Decades later, I realized that the broadband network company where I worked, installing high-speed process control networks in automobile assembly plants and steel mills (before Ethernet existed), was one of the few pioneering startups in Ann Arbor. After our work in San Jose was done, the engineer who came out with me flew back home.

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What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

Steve Blank

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. Students/Teams.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

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During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? For instance, she showed Coca Cola as one of the target brands advertising on the GoodyTag network.