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Dear Sophie: How can I get my startup off the ground and visit the US?

TechCrunch

She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. Once my startup gets off the ground ā€” and as COVID-19 gets under control ā€” Iā€™d like to visit the United States to test the market and meet with investors. Dear Noteworthy, Congratulations on founding your startup! More posts by this contributor.

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Turns at Albuquerque: How I Measure My Career

This is going to be BIG.

It''s my favorite thing to teach as well--and I''ll be giving a class at Startup Institute this Tuesday night about it. They''re a career accelerator, which is a pretty neat concept--doing what YC and Techstars do for startups, but for your career. Anyway, 2015 marks a couple of big career anniversaries for me.

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How Detroitā€™s Cory Tincher is Facilitating the Growth of Startups in Our Region

StartupNation

Detroitā€™s future is in the hands of young, dynamic doers who embrace the opportunity to achieve their personal goals and contribute to the greater good of the local community. Tincherā€™s story exemplifies the magic that occurs in a young personā€™s life when he or she is given the opportunity to blossom. .

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

The number of accelerators has more than doubled since 2014 , while the number of accelerator-backed startups in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ). Moreover, rumors of deeply unethical behavior at accelerators are starting to surface frequently.

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The Four Cities Every Startup Should Invest in Visiting

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley ā€” largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the cityā€™s startup ecosystem. Boulder, Colorado. Nashville, Tennessee.

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The Funding Divide: The Long Road to Fairness in Seed-stage Fundraising

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Source: DocSend At DocSend, we studied the fundraising process of 175 startups at the seed stage in 2019 and analyzed data to understand which seed startups were successful in fundraising and why. Data shows that white, younger male founder teams from the West coast tend to raise more money, more easily.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

When they return, young people like Morrison are finding that Atlantic Canadians have quietly built a robust startup ecosystem that has resulted in a dozen acquisitions to companies like IBM and Salesforce, the sum of which likely surpasses $5 million in cash and stock. Soon, the regionā€™s hard-luck narrative stuck.