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Two Local Erie Startups win Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator Business Bootcamp

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

About the Small Business Development Center at Gannon University: The Small Business Development Center at Gannon University offers no-cost, confidential consulting services for small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to start a business. cnp.benfranklin.org/techcelerator.

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The Silicon Valley Bank Crisis: Resources and Information

Angel Capital Association

We commend the VC’s and angels that have rallied around their entrepreneurs to repurpose lessons learned from the 2008/2009 recession. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual with roughly $300 billion in total assets. Click here for updates or to reach out for consultation.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Finding the right LPs, ocean conservation, inside Uber’s pre-seed deck

TechCrunch

A 60-minute briefing with a consultant who told me I’d be fine if I stuck to the script. 7 investors explain why they’re all in Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 Image Credits: Uber (opens in a new window) The word “disruptive” gets thrown around so much, it’s lost much of its impact.

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EdgeDB raises $15M ahead of the launch of its cloud database service

TechCrunch

.” Selivanov co-founded EdgeDB with Elvis Pranskevichus in 2022, after co-launching a software development consultancy called MagicStack in Toronto in 2008. And so EdgeDB was born. EdgeDB’s product is fundamentally a relational database, or a collection of data items with predefined relationships between them.

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Should Founders Still Raise in an Economic Downturn?

Dream It

Having been at the forefront of the dot-com boom, 9/11, and the financial crisis of 2008, Jason knows what it takes to survive this downturn. If a customer is not looking to adopt your product, there may still be consulting work your team can do. In fact, Jason started investing during the financial crisis. Again, survival is key.

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Praava Health raises $10.6M to increase access to quality healthcare in Bangladesh

TechCrunch

Before launching Praava Health , a company that combines telemedicine with physical clinics, Sylvana Sinha had a successful career in international law, including serving as a foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and working for the World Bank in Afghanistan. million seed for regional expansion.

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The Benefits of Starting a Business During a Recession

StartupNation

Induced by a pandemic and unprecedented state responses, it is even worse than the last international period of economic decline witnessed in 2008. During the period of economic turbulence in 2008, I formed my technology consultancy firm, ROCK. For most, 2008 was a time to avoid risk.

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