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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Startup founders always need help. Qualified people need to be willing to help—and not just help their friends.

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How a Company Becomes a Pillar of Its Local Community

Revolution

Since 2010, roughly a dozen venture-backed unicorns have emerged in and around Salt Lake, in no small part because Qualtrics put the city on the map for founders and VCs. ExactTarget’s co-founder, Scott Dorsey then started a new venture studio and fund, High Alpha, which has backed dozens of startups in the greater Indianapolis area.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. The first to spot the weakness were startup founders.

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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

What does data from the leading investors suggest Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash The current context supports research-heavy startups, there is even a special term for them?—?the the ‘deep tech startup’ search query is reaching one peak after another on Google Trends. in 2010 to €9.6B How May Ph.D.

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Can You Afford a Marketing Team?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

For high-achieving startup founders and entrepreneurs, marketing might feel like a no-brainer to tackle on your own. It isn’t 2010. Written by Jackie Carrillo, a content coordinator and contributor who writes on technology, marketing, business management and education. . Not so fast.

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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

During the early recovery, however, VC-backed M&A rebounded and skyrocketed: Annual deal values eclipsed $30 billion in 2010, holding steady before ballooning above $70 billion in 2014. Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. How can you avoid this unnecessary fate?

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a16z now wants to manage the money of the entrepreneurs it backs

TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz’s recent hire of former Jordan Park Group Chief Investment Officer Michel Del Buono suggests the venture capital firm is getting into startup founder wealth management. Meanwhile, Sequoia’s business unit, Sequoia Heritage, was formed in 2010 and currently manages $16.4 billion, according to Bloomberg.