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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. There was no money train. It was 1991.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “

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PayDivvy to Launch at Finovate Conference

Tech Zulu Event

PayDivvy , unveiled today at the Finovate Conference in San Francisco, was conceived a few years ago while Mike Melby was attending the Wharton School of Business. His idea and subsequent business plan won the Wharton Venture Award in 2009 and was a finalist for the Wharton Business Plan Competition. by %, by $ amount).

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Four SoCal Startups That Thrived Despite--or Because Of--Economic Downturns

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However, if history is any lesson, downturns actually have created some of Southern California's most successful technology companies, whether through forcing those companies to swizzle their business models, by removing competition from the market, or even spurring customers to more readily adopt their products to save money.

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If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace

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His message was that he realized he needed to move his girlfriend’s stuff into a storage facility due to apartment flooding. They built the software. The first one out even won a major tech conference award. Of course there is competition! I felt bad. I enquired what he was going to do. In stead of saying, “Poor me.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 That died with waterfall software development. What about your competition – how much do they charge? Do so at your peril.

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Do Less. More.

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There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else. .” You don’t need to be hot.