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The Entrepreneurial Path: Essential Tips for First-time Founders

American Entrepreneurship

However, the rewards of building something from the ground up that is profitableas well as creating jobs, innovating, and solving problemscan be immensely gratifying. Maintaining tight control over your finances will help you navigate the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial journey. Did you mismanage your finances?

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The Role of Alternative Funding in Startups

StartupNation

What are the options, benefits, and risks of alternative financing for a startup? Alternative financing is any kind of financing that does not involve a traditional bank. They may seek alternative funding as a supplement to traditional financing. What is Alternative Funding? They are turned down for a traditional loan.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

James Burnes: Ministry of Awesome is a startup ecosystem organisation that is on a mission to drive New Zealand’s economic growth through founder-led innovation. We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round. Lots of community discussions.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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How the New York City innovation community can still lose (and what you can do about it)

This is going to be BIG.

As a Brooklyn native who has never lived outside the five boroughs—and someone who left Big Finance—I feel a special kind of pride over what’s gone on here in the last six+ years. There isn’t a single person in the NYC that is more excited than I am about how far we’ve come.

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Should every startup get funded?

This is going to be BIG.

” I’m all for more entrepreneurship, but I think it’s a slippery slope to tie together funding an increased number of companies with a better innovation landscape or even a better economic. First off all, not every company is right for equity financing—and many other companies would be better off starting without it.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. I commented that many young entrepreneurs I talk to these days have a desire to “go plural&# and create an incubator. I think this makes no sense.