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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

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5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here!

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What I learned after running my startup while traveling for a year

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Gilles Bertaux is CEO and co-founder of Livestorm , an end-to-end video engagement platform enabling organizations to create meetings and webinars at scale. The life of a startup founder is not typically relaxing. Your startup is your baby, and it needs care and feeding 24/7. Long hours are a given and days off are few.

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Draper Startup House launches first accelerator program, choosing Austin as its home

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Austin, Texas, is becoming the new home for large companies (Tesla), investors and startups alike. . It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program. As part of the program, DSH will invest up to $100,000 in pre-seed startups. .