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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

TechCrunch

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Are you ready to rumble, TechCrunch style?

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Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives a Mission to Connect People With Popongo

StartupNation

I later moved to Denver, Colorado, and have worked in the world of banking and real estate as a partner and co-CEO of a company called Legacy Management Group since 2004. Since relocating to America, I have independently invested in several other business ventures outside of my full-time job. How to Achieve Startup Success from Day 1.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil. Fundraising for the Series A looked like it was going to be difficult--and that''s when Rich Levendov from Avalon Ventures stepped in.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

Today, we’re entering an age where creative technology will allow anyone to create virtual worlds and bring their imaginations to life. riggers, environment artists, texture painters) towards creative generalists. Human creative innovation will always reign supreme – AI will help bring it to life.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. While the State is not known as a hub for venture capital, we have frequently been recognized by national sources as a great place to start a new business. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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Circularity in action: circular innovations in Indonesia

Impact Hub

The roots of Sampangan trace back to Langsat, a small town in Aceh Province, devastated by the 2004 Tsunami. Following his graduation, Fauzal ventured to Jakarta to pursue a career in banking, while his father embarked on a mission to develop inventions aimed at addressing the waste problem.