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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

Angel Investors An angel investor invests in a business using their own money. They may also provide guidance and mentorship, while taking the firm’s equity in return for the investment. Incubators, often locally based, offer guidance, mentorship, legal advice, and funding.

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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. In 2022-23, we started having a lot of demand for our programs so our premier program Founder Catalyst, that incubation program, started accepting more and more companies from outside the region.

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

This is going to be BIG.

VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. You can get just about any wealthy person to part with some small portion of their wealth to put into risky investments, but these people don't contribute back to the ecosystem. On top of that, they tend to be the locus of innovation networks.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking. There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. The success of YCombinator and Techstars has spawned countless new incubators. Don't want to learn code?

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

Both Sides of the Table

I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers.