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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

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Sessions will include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, S2G, and the City of Atlanta. SaaS Stage: Considers how software-as-a-service unlocks creativity and efficiency with mobile apps, cloud-based resources, collaboration tools, creator communities, developer tools, e-commerce, low code, recurring revenue and marketing tools.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

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Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

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The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on. Venture-backed: 42 years.

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Spotter raises $200M to invest $1 billion into YouTubers’ back catalogs

TechCrunch

Funders across these three rounds include Access Industries, HighPost Capital, CoVenture, GPS Partners and Crossbeam Venture Partners. I also learned how important it is for creators to remain independent, both in their creative process and in the transformation to the enterprise level.”.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on. Venture-backed: 42 years.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

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I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. Ideas get poorly vetted because the funders aren't current on tech trends. It's in the Financial District--right at 55 Broad Street. It says so right on their website. I'll bet you didn't know that--mostly because it never was.

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12 ‘flexible VCs’ who operate where equity meets revenue share

TechCrunch

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. Previously, we introduced the concept of flexible VC : structures that allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. Greater Colorado Venture Fund.