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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

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Being self-sustainable has given us a new perspective on startup funding, especially compared to what I experienced on my first accelerator run. Here are some truths about what accelerators can be for startups: A small filter. Our ability to recruit talent may be affected if we are based outside significant startup hubs.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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. — Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. Startup Lessons' Note: Today’s beautiful image courtesy of Alissa Evangelista who can be found on Twitter or 500px. ** – While this quote is often attributed to Mark Twain, the great irony is that it appears that Mark Twain wasn’t the person who coined the phrase.

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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

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Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. That’s why in this article, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the startups using voice technology to make healthcare better, along with some of the VC’s and accelerators that are backing them.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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Long before that, the company engaged in anti-competitive practices and antagonized critics, especially female journalists like Sarah Lacy, who called out years of the company’s toxic issues as early 2014. Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey. It’s male founder friendly. It probably fall somewhere in between.

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The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market

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— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) November 1, 2014. For the most part, journalists give startups a free pass when venture capital money is raised or when companies that clearly seem to have failed get "acquired". And then I promptly got Twitter flack from one of the people who works at one of the company''s investors.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC?

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