Just this summer, Canadian techie Brydon Gilliss founded Geeks on a Train as a way for the startup community to bond on the way to the GROW Conference.
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SolarCity is moving to capture the home energy efficiency upgrade market the same way the Silicon Valley startup and its competitors turbocharged the market for residential rooftop solar panels: Financial engineering.
In fact, the quickest way to kill a startup is to make the wrong hiring decisions.
Here Bartlett provides further clues as to the lagging startup environment, though not in the way most would assume.
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Chicago-based startup revolutionizes the way people go out at night by automatically tracking and revealing the number of people in a bar, the male-to-female ratio, and the average age of each customer, in real-time, with no need for user participation.
These days, the hot way to launch a startup is by joining an incubator or venture accelerator.
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The startup has always offered an easy way for anyone to create a website or Facebook fan page using its simple templates and easy drag-and-drop interface.
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This illustrates the two-way effect of organizations like Startup Weekend.
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And, I reasoned, with the job market the way it was I could always find something to fall back on if my startup leap of faith turned out to be a disaster.
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If Evan Owens, Co-Founder of tech startup Pogoseat, has his way, the age old practice of sneaking around or bribing ushers is about to come to a close.
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And in this race, the technologist, the engineer, the accountant all have an edge in creating the next iteration of capital "J" journalism (especially if they can take advantage of a startup mentality, free of the "this is the way we've always done it" managerial malaise).
In future posts I will share stories and content from my book as well as from my research on the Lean Startup movement and other ideas which are all very similar and share the same message: there is a better way to be an entrepreneur.
What a great way to help sprinkle the Silicon Valley magic on our startup communities everywhere!
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One way is to lease or rent the domain name until your startup has enough capital to purchase it.
Flipboard, a startup that has created a way to optimize online content for the iPad, has gotten a lot of attention since its debut last year.
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In the great marathon of startup life, teaching yourself to maintain perspective is an easy way to keep your sanity when things seem to be going less than perfectly.
From apps to check the ingredients in a box of cereal to on-farm GPS units in tractors, it appears that someone has already thought of every way to use technology to improve the food system, and created a startup to do it.
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The process by which capital is marshaled and channeled into startup ventures has also broken down in some way.
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Another way to accelerate growth of employment opportunities would be for the next President to establish startup-friendly policies that will incent more young company activity among those already in the U.S., and entice global talent to start their companies here.
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And, just at the moment when many startup are gaining traction is also when they are most vulnerable to losing their way, to forgetting what they are uniquely about as the VCs try to fit them into a revenue model.
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But in much the same way that a malnourished sapling will struggle to be a strong tree, so too for a startup starved of cash.
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Hassan has said his goal is to build the foundations for what could one day be an enormous industry in a way a conventional venture-backed startup or academic research group can not.
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