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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. Well, for starters, I was born in Philadelphia, so I’m a lifelong Eagles fan. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund.

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Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011

Steve Blank

I am honored to be with you as we gather to celebrate your graduation from Philadelphia University. For a guy who loved technology, I was certainly in the right place. As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. My third story is about Failure and Redemption.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Two Weeks until "The Startup Way"

Startup Lessons Learned

“Mission critical reading.” -- Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Alliance and The Startup of You In just a few weeks, my new book, The Startup Way , will be available in print, digital, and audio formats. Here’s the current list of my planned stops.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

MetaLayer ( www.metalayer.com , Philadelphia, PA) harnesses business users’ own proprietary data and the world’s unstructured, real-time data alike, transforming complex data analysis into a simple drag and drop experience. To date, VCAP© has received 149 applicants, of which 15 companies made round one, and 6 made round two.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started my business when I was forced to drop out of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA due to financial difficulties in my family. I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. While I worked hard I watched as my co-workers got away with doing as little as possible.