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Where and When is Creativity Cultivated?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

There are a number of podcasts aimed at entrepreneurship – Forbes recommended twelve in this article , including StartUp and the Pitch – but we’ve also found career inspiration in other programming that’s not specifically geared toward business. The post Where and When is Creativity Cultivated?

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June 2016 Project Octane: A Student of Opportunity

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Just ask Violeta Martinez, winner of the 2016 EO GSEA Global Finals and founder of VAIZA, an El Salvador-based, luxury brand crafted from the heart. In my first job, I watched as other designers did the same things day in and day out with little pay; it can really zap you of your creativity. To my surprise, I won first place!

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By the time I founded Equifund in 2016, I was deeply familiar with the landscape and felt prepared to tackle the challenge. Navigating Tough Financial Times Managing finances during this period was an exercise in frugality and creativity. The problem I was solving was so clear to me. What could go wrong?

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Cities are Like Startups

Revolution

One characteristic I have discovered and tracked with fascination since 2016?—?in So the oft-elusive “elevator pitch” is instead replaced with a shorthand: “we are the Uber for X.” “We Silicon X Syndrome So if cities are like startups, what “startup-ish” characteristics might they exhibit? We are the Facebook for Y.” “We

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Splice gets $55 million for its software bringing beats from bedrooms to bandstands

TechCrunch

In addition to the financing, Splice also nabbed Kakul Srivastava, the vice president of Adobe Creative Cloud Experience and Engagement as a director for its board. Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Honeycomb’s $50M Series D deck

TechCrunch

What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable, whether in a heightened interest in being able to do things like breakdown by customer ID or this exploding complexity that was about to come onto the scene driven by Kubernetes, microservices and containers. “Who is this product for?”

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Multiplayer fintech, and the muddled world of startup data

TechCrunch

Braid, a group-financing platform, is trying to make transactions work for various entities, from shared households to side hustles to creative projects. Image Credits: Paper Boat Creative (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. The company’s primary backer was Lore, who sold his company Jet.com to Walmart in 2016 for $3.3

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