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Impact Hub Bergen: Where History Meets Innovation

Impact Hub

Hidden staircases and historic artifacts contrast the colorful furnishing and modern office equipment, providing an inspiring backdrop for social innovation, technology and the realization of ideas. Impact Hub Bergen was an early starter amongst social innovation spaces and joined the global Impact Hub network in 2008.

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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Many programs still put a lot of focus on demo day rehearsals, prep, and on getting the pitch deck just right. It did for me, at least.

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Early-bird pricing increases next week for TC Early Stage Operations & Fundraising

TechCrunch

You’ll learn or strengthen the core entrepreneurial skillsets every startup founder needs to master — legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, recruiting, pitch deck teardowns and more. In 2011, he co-founded the first beginner-focused, in-person coding bootcamp. Talk about awesome exposure!

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Muck Rack, the journalist database, raises $180M in its first outside funding

TechCrunch

Every PR professional should be using Muck Rack,” said Josh Elser, managing director at SGE, in a statement “The Company has established itself as one of the most innovative software platforms to meet the shifting demands of the communications industry.

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MessageGears, a cloud customer engagement platform, raises $62M

TechCrunch

Accucast, where he served as CTO after leaving Delta, struggled with this as it pitched software and services for email marketing. Roy founded MessageGears in 2011 with Taylor Jones, a colleague, to productize this solution. But he asserted that the startup is positioned for growth.

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

Both Sides of the Table

Are we headed for a long era of innovation in which startups are the new norm? Yes, there is unprecedented innovation. So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. They pitch me features, not value. But what does this all mean? I play with features.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

Both Sides of the Table

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they