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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. So there you have it.

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Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral.

Berkonomics

Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. And, like the story of Discord and Twitter, it takes continual product and feature updates to stay ahead of the competition or overtake a sleepy competitor.

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

InfoChachkie

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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OK, So Maybe Not ALL MBA Entrepreneurs Are Oxymorons

InfoChachkie

Ventures In Which An MBA Education Is A Plus. Large Capital Requirements – MBA’s, especially those from top schools, have access to significant amounts of capital, primarily through their alumni and peer networks. billion from 2010-2015. A nice way of saying they can be arrogant mercenaries. “When M.B.A.’s

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Smart Startups Learn How To Create And Manage Hype

Startup Professionals Musings

Even technology solutions with a large intuitive value, such as a cure for cancer, need hype for visibility, education, side-effect considerations and to avoid a scam label. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/14/2015. The best startups start early, and put as much focus on the hype as they do on the product.

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Find Out What Tech Is Emerging From the Ozarks

Tech.Co

We always have a local entrepreneur share their story, and there is locally-sourced beer, food, and networking built in before and after the talk. I came on full-time with Startup Junkie in 2015, and haven’t looked back! That leads to a mentor network packed with subject matter experts in retail, food innovation, and supply chain.

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

Xconomy

In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco. Our civic center actually had to upgrade their broadband because we needed a really good Wi-Fi with the competition being done on computers. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017.

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