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For Many New Ventures, Location Is The Key To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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When Planning A Startup, A Top Priority Is Location

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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How To Stop Toxic Leadership From Spreading A Virus In Your Company

YoungUpstarts

As the founder of MKB Conseil & Coaching in Geneva, Switzerland, and Excellent Executive Coaching, LLC, in Las Vegas, Nevada, she has developed a network of international clients, experts and scholar-practitioners.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

Located in both San Francisco and San Jose (and soon to be Las Vegas), Citizen Space bills itself as simply, “a nicer place to work.” With a humongous 75,000-square-foot space in SoHo, WeWork bills itself as “the physical social network,” a place where people can get connected and work live and in person. Citizen Space.

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ExhibitMatch.com – Matching Trade Exhibitors With Vendors

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Founded in 2010, Las Vegas-based startup ExhibitMatch ( www.exhibitmatch.com ) hopes to solve that particular problem – it is a global online interactive bidding platform that matches trade show exhibitors with stand builders from around the world. . The backbone of ExhibitMatch is its database of 35,000 events.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. There is a long tradition of these and it’s what formed the original angel network groups. As I look at LA I see a lot of this reinvestment going on. We know it can be done.

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