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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. This outer borough community is fueled by the creativity of an even wider assortment of innovators--and what I find most interesting is where they do what they do.

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Accel, BoxGroup, Cowboy Ventures, Pear VC and Yahoo to judge Startup Battlefield at Disrupt

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Improve your pitch: Startup Battlefield isn’t just thrilling to watch; it’s a masterclass in how investors think. All right, here are the final five business Brahmins who will help judge the Startup Battlefield pitch competition. Rich Wong joined Accel as a partner in 2006. Rich Wong , partner at Accel.

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What Is Undercover Marketing? – Strategies & Examples

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Ad Spies: Brands usually pay influencers to surreptitiously pitch its products to their followers without showing that it’s a paid gig. Here are some of the most creative and innovative examples of stealth marketing strategies. Undercover Marketing Strategies. Examples Of Undercover Marketing. Stealth marketing isn’t new.

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Formstack raises $425M for a no-code platform that helps businesses automate their customer and internal workflows

TechCrunch

Founded in 2006 — not in the Valley but Fishers, Indiana (near Indianapolis) — the initial aim of Formstack, Byers said, was to build a tool to make it easier to create online forms to gather customer information and more automatically channel that into relevant applications in the back office. Today, it no longer exists.

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Hockey Stick Growth Explained

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Though this stage poses the least amount of pressure on an entrepreneur, some mistakes can still upend an innovative startup idea. As the entrepreneurs are hardly making any money to pay their personal bills, they devote a great deal of time and energy in making elaborate pitches for raising investment capital. million.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

TechCrunch

“Sugar is a massive consumer of water and in contrast, there’s big sustainability pitch for what we do. “Our pitch is we make sugars from fiber so you don’t need to use cane sugar.” customers until it doubles production in 2006. the raw materials are products of the current agricultural industry.”

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

How did the experience of pitching Iron Planet to investors affect you as a VC? (5:00 Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Opportunities in vertical search exist where the sources of data are somewhat hidden and can be unlocked and displayed in an innovative manner.

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