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Forge the Future: Immersive Roleplaying for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Paul G. Silva

Built on the award-winning Forged in the Dark framework, this experiential learning tool places participants in the roles of startup founders racing to bring their vision to life before time and resources run out. Forge the Future allows you to experience these challenges firsthand.

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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

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Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. What is a founder to do? Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had.

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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

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But like many companies over the past five years it hired aggressively and probably had some degree of straying off of a core strategy and some amount of excess jobs relative to its current revenue forecasts and opportunities. When you accelerate too quickly often a pull back is inevitable as you recalibrate. Others will follow.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. We have invested $17.3

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The Entrepreneurial Path: Essential Tips for First-time Founders

American Entrepreneurship

.”This quote emphasizes the boldness and vision required to start a company, highlighting the importance of the founder maintaining the belief in their ability to create something transformative. Consider attending startup events, joining incubators or accelerators, and seeking out people in your industry who are open to mentoring.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

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Ex-Singlife head Ned Lowe joins MISSION+, leads effort to accelerate growth across Southeast Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Register MISSION+ has announced the addition of Ned Lowe as the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead efforts to accelerates support for fintechs and insurtechs across Southeast Asia. The technology building firm sought the likes of Revolut, Railsr and Draper Startup House to further its growth. Username or Email Address.