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The Entrepreneurial Path: Essential Tips for First-time Founders

American Entrepreneurship

By clearly defining product-market fit, you will save time and money by investing in the building of a product or service that is truly demanded by a sizeable target audience. Develop a Strong Network Building a network of advisors, mentors, investors, and peers can be one of your most valuable resources as a founder.

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The Role of Alternative Funding in Startups

StartupNation

Less common bank loans, such as those offered by credit unions or Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI), may also fall into this category. Today, there are many more options, a development that has opened the doors to more startups. You need a good pitch and must have (or develop) marketing skills.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round. Over time, the co-working space developed and there was a natural progression towards a lot of individuals starting new ventures coming out of that space. Lots of community discussions.

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NJEDA Board Approves Two Programs to Advance New Jersey’s Leadership in Artificial Intelligence

American Entrepreneurship

Next NJ Program and AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program will increase AI investment and catalyze groundbreaking research TRENTON, N.J. New Jerseys continued investment in the sectors of the future will pay dividends for generations to come, setting the Garden State on a path of economic strength and prosperity.

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HPA Invests in Handspring’s $12M Series A, Expanding High Quality Mental Health Care for Kids

HPA

This investment joins other HPA portfolio companies NOCD and Array Behavioral Health that are focused on increasing access to high quality behavioral healthcare. The company will use this funding to deepen its clinical offerings for complex patient populations, expand value-based care partnerships, and further develop its technology.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

If you want to build an eCommerce site, it won't take a developer long to get you up and running on Shopify. Still, you need some amount of development experience to do all of this so you still need to hire--or why not just do it yourself? You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

Both Sides of the Table

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. But wait, does that make Launchpad LA an incubator now? There are at least 6 incubators now being set up in LA.

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