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It's time to Startup Iowa!
Tomorrow, Startup Iowa will be the eighth startup region formed as part of our national effort to the create more startups and accelerate the growth of speedups. Check out this blog post as see on the newly launched Startup Iowa website:Welcome to StartupIowa!For those of you not familiar with the Startup America Partnership, it is a national effort to recognize entrepreneurs and the ecosystems that support them. They have recognized seven current ‘regions’ within the United States, including Colorado, Texas, Connecticut, Illinois, Tennessee, Massachusetts and Florida. On December 13th, Iowa enters the Partnership as the eighth region.What does this mean? It means that we are recognizing the amazing...
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Start-Ups Supporting Start-Ups
By Mitch Colleran, Partner and Channel Manager at Eventbrite. This post orginally appeared on the Eventbrite blog.We’re proud to announce that we’re supporting the Startup America Partnership, a nonprofit organization that is “based on a simple premise: young companies that grow create jobs. As a core American value, entrepreneurship is critical to the country’s long term success and it’s time to step up our game.”As a start-up ourselves, we’ve experienced what can be accomplished by the passion that comes from entrepreneurship. We want to support the start-up community in creative and powerful ways.We’ll be supporting Startup America in two ways. First, we’ll be...
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Startup America Regions Head to the White House
Today, regional leaders and entrepreneurs from Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Tennessee will join the Startup America all-entrepreneur board and senior administration officials at the White House for an in-depth discussion on building strong startup ecosystems across the country. The leaders will share their region's bright spots and challenges, discuss the value of entrepreneur-led initiatives and the involvement of the entire private sector in rallying entire communities to focus on job creation, and provide recommendations for how Startup America can best help the regions strengthen their local startup networks and engage young companies to help them grow organically in their...
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How Web 3.0 Is Changing Hiring Forever
By Eric GaydosThis post originally appeared on The Resumator Blog. The Resumator is a new partner of the Startup America Partnership offering recruiting software to help growing businesses use innovative and unconventional methods to attract, engage and hire brilliant people.Web 2.0 gave us social media, expanding the information superhighway into a two-way street. We can make our own content, share it with friends, and make a site without being able to spell HTML. It’s arguably the most revolutionary development in the history of mankind; I don’t say that lightly. But we aren’t entrepreneurs because we’re happy with the status quo. Oh, no -- we must endlessly debate what’s next with Dewey Decimal-...
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The only gift guide you need this holiday season
By Alex Suarez-Mondshein, Founder & CEO of Words to Live By, a Startup America firm. Words to Live By books are the perfect gift for life’s most important milestones (weddings, babies, graduations, and more). Show someone how much they are loved.If you are one of the few, highly organized people who finished their holiday shopping while preparing Thanksgiving dinner, then you don’t need to read on.If you’re not, don’t panic. There is still time to do your holiday shopping for everyone on your “nice” list. But half the battle is finding the perfect gift for the special people in our lives, and doing so in such a way that this holiday season is filled with less mayhem and more merry.From...
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Pivoting is really hard.
By Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad - they making selling stuff as easy as sharing a link.Pivoting looks easy. It seems to happen three times a day, per startup in the Valley. It’s not. Pivoting is really hard.Let’s say you’re the founder of a startup with a product that isn’t working.First, you have to convince yourself. Then, you have to bring up the fact (to the rest of the company) that the idea they’ve spent months, or years, pursuing is not working. Often, you’re the one who suggested everyone work on it in the beginning. You hired these people to work on this idea. They believed in you. Some of them will think about quitting — some of them will go through with it. This is a...
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A Startup Founder’s Holiday Wish List
By Glen HellmanThis post originally appeared on Tech CocktailYou have a special someone for whom you must buy a gift this holiday season. This person is a unique breed. He or she is a startup founder and always on the go.You asked them what they want for the holidays, and they gave you the following list:1. $3.5 million in funding for their pre-revenue company from New Enterprise Associates at a pre-money valuation of $20 million for common stock with no participation2. Simultaneous Tech Crunch, Mashable and Tech Cocktail reviews confirming that this startup’s product or service is a must-have requirement if you want to be invited to eat lunch at the cool kids’ table3. ...
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Featured Startup Video: GiveForward
By, Ethan Austin, Co-founder of GiveForward, a Startup America Firm.GiveForward provides people with personal fundraising websites to raise money for their friends and loved ones' out-of-pocket medical expenses and helps them answer the question "what can I do to help when a loved one gets sick?"January 1st, 2012 will mark the three year anniversary of our absolute lowest point at GiveForward. On January 1st, 2009 we had exactly one visitor on our website. One. Stinking. Visitor! It was depressing. We had launched the website six months earlier and our traffic volume was seemingly going backwards. Come to think of it, that whole first year was kind of depressing from a...
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Expertise is key
Knowledge comes from people and experiences, from stories of successes and failures. Surrounding yourself and your team with people from whom you can learn is critical to the success of your startup. Expertise --- connecting startups with training, mentors, advisors and accelerators, is one of our five key focus areas for our offers and resources. Every Monday we will be sharing some of the expert resources that our partners offer. Today’s exclusive offer is from Cisco. The Entrepreneurial Mindset, a ten hour, self-paced Cisco Entrepreneur Institute workshop, is specifically designed to explore the mindset of successful entrepreneurs.To access this offer, register now for your personalized...
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Where do Entrepreneurs Get Their Money?
Another animated sketchbook narrated by Paul Kedrosky, Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, "Money Game – Where do Entrepreneurs Get Their Money?” tells us how and where startups get their money. More than 700,000 people want to start a new firm every year, so where do they start? Startup capital, or "seed money" is required for any new business. But where is the capital for your startup coming from? Have you tapped into all your personal resources? Watch this clever video for ideas on where to find this "seed money", then register your startup with us and take advantage of our free capital resources.Click here to apply! ...
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Let's Startup Texas!
By Donna Harris, Managing Director, Startup RegionsI want to welcome our newest Startup America region — Startup Texas! The incredibly passionate community of entrepreneurs and supporters in Austin has taken the bull by the horns (to use Texas metaphors!) and pushed Startup Texas forward with a launch this week. Recently called a "brain hub" and "tech hub" by the Wall Street Journal, Austin is home to many cool companies. I wasn't surprised that a group from Austin wanted to lead the charge and bring Startup America to Texas. What was most surprising (in a totally cool, wish-everyone-had-this-much-drive sort of way) is the dogged tenacity of the team to get it going. Many thanks to...
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Help I need money!
“...if we only had more money.” We hear this all the time at Startup America. While capital is essential, keep in mind that it is only going to help you if you have already built a solid network, created a product that customers want and put together a great team.Access to capital is a major hurdle for many companies starting out. That’s why capital is one of our five key focus areas for our offers and resources. We know that there are many options out there, some traditional some non-traditional, to get your company funded that's why we are building an impressive list of Capital tools for our registered startups.Every Friday we will feature one of our partner offers that is focused on Capital. This week’s...
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Recent News:
10/19/12 - Startup Communities Across the Country, Huffington Post (Startup America Partnership)
10/19/12 - Bonfyre partners with Powder Keg Conference 2012, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO & Startup IA)
10/17/12 - Food Waste In, Renewable Energy Out: Startup Re-Nuble Is Crowdfunding the Local Green Economy, Huffington Post (Startup DC)
10/17/12 - Powder Keg aims to blast Indy startups onto national scene, Indianapolis Business Journal (Startup IN & Startup MO)
10/17/12 - Featured Startup Pitch: Founded by a group of teachers with tech backgrounds, ActiveGrade seeks to fundamentally change the way grading is done in schools, Startup Beat (Startup IA)
10/03/12 - How Tory Burch Created A $2 Billion Empire In Less Than A Decade, Business Insider (Startup America Partnership)
10/01/12 - Voices of the Tech Community: What do Ecosystem Need? The Miami Herald (Startup FL)
9/20/12 - Entrepreneurs make pitches as Startup Maryland and its studio bus rolls into UMBC, The Republic (Startup MD)
9/20/12 - USF-led partnership awarded $1 million to launch new companies, Tampa Bay Business Journal (Startup FL)
9/19/12 - Startup Bus tours Maryland, stops in Baltimore area to promote entrepreneurship, Baltimore Sun (Startup MD)
Startup America at DEMO Fall 2012:
10/11/12 - Startup Connection: Nourishment for mind, body and soul, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/05/12 - The 14 Most Interesting Startups To Emerge From DEMO, TechCrunch (Startup CA & OR)
10/04/12 - St. Louis startups look to cash in on DEMO showing, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/04/12 - St. Louis’ Click With Me Now, Evtron Pitch At DEMO 2012, Techli (Startup MO)
10/03/12 - DEMO Gods: Birds, brains, and the best products of the season, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/03/12 - BRIEF: Stamford's eBrevia Wins Scholarship for Tech Conference in Silicon Valley [The Hartford Courant], Bloomberg Businessweek (Startup CT)
10/03/12 - LifeStyleFeed brings the Seventh Art to restaurant selection, VentureBeat (Startup DC)
10/03/12 - Playing recruiter: This startup pays you to find your friends jobs, VentureBeat (Startup DC)
10/03/12 - Don’t like checking your mail? MailGapp may have your solution, VentureBeat (Startup HI)
10/03/12 - Itography hopes to lure advertisers to location-based virtual collection game, VentureBeat (Startup TX)
10/03/12 - Weekend warriors: Track your fitness with Novusport’s social mobile sports game, VentureBeat (Startup TX)
10/03/12 - Today, birdwatching. Tomorrow, saving the entire planet!, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/03/12 - Demo Fall 2012: Creating More Focused Social Networks, PC Mag (Startup OR, DC, IA, VA)
10/03/12 - Demo Fall 2012: Business and Commerce Applications, PC Mag (Startup MO & Startup CT)
10/03/12 - Stamford's eBrevia Wins Scholarship for Tech Conference in Silicon Valley, The Hartford Courant (Startup CT)
10/03/12 - RecBob takes the work out of after-work sports, VentureBeat (Startup IA)
10/03/12 - Watch RecBob’s DEMO presentation at noon (Live stream), Silicon Prairie News (Startup IA)
10/02/12 - Meet The 8 Startup Winners From Startup America’s DEMO Contest, Nibletz (Startup TN, OR, IL, DC, CA, IA, CT, MO)
10/02/12 - Cut through the legal fog with computer-generated summaries, Global Reporter (Startup CT)
10/02/12 - Cut through the legal fog with computer-generated summaries, VentureBeat (Startup CT)
10/02/12 - Birdeez app flies toward birdwatchers' iPhones, TechHive (Startup CA)
10/02/12 - Bonfyre Takes on Private Mobile Sharing with New App Focused on Real Life, Not Newsfeeds, Herald Online (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - Three St. Louis startups launch products at California conference, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - This Barrel Is Ready to Roll! Launching Our Tech Startup, HuffingtonPost (Startup DC)
10/02/12 - For big-ticket items, social shopping needs more screen-sharing, VentureBeat (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - Flite’s new Touch Ad Studio lets top publishers actually make money on mobile, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/02/12 - Bonfyre launches mobile app to combine private with social sharing, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/01/12 - CoPatient Launches Online Platform to Audit & Appeal Medical Bills on Behalf of Patients, Sacramento Bee (Startup OR)
10/01/12 - D.C. job-search start-up launching at DEMO in Silicon Valley, The Washington Post (Startup DC)
10/01/12 - D.C. at Demo: High School CEO debuts Hallway, The Washington Post (Startup DC)
09/30/12 - Hills Bank and Trust promotes four, The Gazette (Startup IA)
09/29/12 - RecBob wins Startup America contest, will pitch next week at DEMO, Silicon Prairie News (Startup IA)
09/13/12 - Click With Me Now wins a trip to DEMO, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
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