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7 Definitive Traits You Need for Startup Success
Explore mediabistro.com (Feb 13 2012) Marketing
...iving and lasting company with tips from these media entrepreneurs. Event Photos: Cocktail Party in Boston AvantGuild How To Pitch for PR: New York Fill these hallowed pages with innovative, stylish and unusual products that "have a direct connect...
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How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston
Explore mixergy.com (Dec 26 2011)
...as, I was just graduated from school, about a year out of school. I was taking the Chinatown bus to New York. And I forgot my thumbdrive. So I’m sitting down on the bus. I’m really excited because I have like......of it was I had a bunch of other friends doing startups, and they were, maybe they’d started out in Boston and then moved to California ...
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Comment Mentions: Jessica Livingston Eric Reis Boston
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How To Win Customers By Doing Good Things For Them
Explore mixergy.com (Oct 28 2011)
... miss this. What did you do? Jonathan: There was a woman who was throwing an event from Inc [SP] in Boston. They’re in New York, so they don’t know the scene as well, where they should be promoting. I just did her a solid and h...
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Comment Mentions: Boston San Francisco Washington
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Increase Your Conversions. Get Recurring Revenue. Sell Your Business.
Explore mixergy.com (Oct 26 2011)
...nds. I could have worked it a few ways, but given the company we were, we had companies mostly from Boston and New York and they were just going to fire everybody and move it up there. Andrew: I see. Anne: So I said no,...
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Comment Mentions: America Boston Fred Wilson
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Do things that don’t scale [Big Idea Series]
Explore mixergy.com (Jun 20 2011)
Why? Why did flying to New York turn around Airbnb's business? That's what I asked the founders when I interviewed them. "It was w......o list his entire apartment. Why? Because he goes on tour with Barry and they go to Providence, to Boston, away for a week at a time. “Suddenly we found ourselves in a situation where we had a user, a rea... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Providence Boston San Francisco
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The Making Of Monster.com (By A Dj Entrepreneur) – with Jeffrey Taylor
Explore mixergy.com (Dec 15 2010)
...ocal obituary news, and Deep Snow, an incubator that wants to prove that startups could flourish in Boston. Jeff, welcome. I gave just a few of the products that you’re working on. You gave me even more in ...... some level, there was no support. There was a guy named Stewart Elliot, who was a reporter for the New York Times, who said there’s something here. I think it ...
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“Unjargoning” The Investment Process – with Fred Destin
Explore mixergy.com (Oct 6 2010)
...f the time. So if you don’t make it about the money, make it about the world of entrepreneurship in Boston and New York, whatever it may be. That’s a good conversation. And then I know you want to raise money, but there...
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How Did The Founder Of Grockit Raise $17+ Mil To Revolutionize Education? – with Farbood Nivi
Explore mixergy.com (Aug 12 2010)
...do like $7 million a year in revenue. After I graduated from the University of Michigan, I moved to Boston and started, we were trying to start a more serious version of Vision, sort of like a Geek Squad. T......got to stop and do this. I grew up listening to Howard Stern. When Howard Stern was on the radio in New York and some lesbian came on and would ...
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Comment Mentions: Reid Hoffman University of Michigan Boston
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Fraternity of the Wired Works in the Wee Hours
Explore The New York Times (Jul 26 2010)
... Others have organized similar weekly gatherings in nearly a dozen cities, including San Francisco, Boston, Stockholm and Melbourne, Australia. In New York, roughly two dozen people armed with laptops and caffeinated beverages assemble each week on the to...
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Comment Mentions: Boston Australia San Francisco
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How To Sell
Explore VentureFizz (Jul 18 2010)
...nd promptly leveraged my Ivy League credentials into 28 rejection letters from the best agencies in Boston and New York (I still have them all. Bastards.) My Dad convinced me at a truly low point in my life that a marke... (Read Full Article)
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How A First-Time Entrepreneur Launched Going.com And Sold It To Aol — with Roy Rodenstein
Explore mixergy.com (Jul 13 2010)
...of things. And that took us probably to tens of thousands. And then we did our launch event here in Boston, and eventually we did also launch events in New York and San Francisco as well. And what we did was we basically offered free entry or some other benefi...
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Comment Mentions: Boston IBM San Francisco
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How SEOMoz’s Founder Went From Deep Debt To $4+ Mil Per Year – with Rand Fishkin
Explore mixergy.com (Jun 30 2010)
...ou guys started. Rand: Yeah. Well, so, I’ll go all the way back. In 1981, my parents moved out from New York to Seattle. My dad got a job with Boeing, and my mom started up a marketing company. Fast forward a......rying to build up a brand and a business, can make. Look, if you’re trying to, I want to rank for a Boston mesothelioma attorney and ...
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Comment Mentions: Jeff Bezos Boston Newsweek
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Co-Working Sites in Your City
Explore ReadWriteWeb (Jun 14 2010)
...n their list of the Top 10 Cities for Young Entrepreneurs. Their list includes co-working sites in New York, Boston, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, Atlanta, Phoenix, and Orlando. Commenters on t...
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Comment Mentions: Boston San Francisco Seattle
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Is it easier to find programming talent in Boston than Palo Alto and New York?
Explore Startable (Jun 9 2010) Recruiting
... it is a bit easier here than in Palo Alto. Compensation of programmers in Palo Alto is higher than Boston and New York And of course the other important part of the equation is how much it costs to hire talent. From th...
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Startups in Boston are founded by students who stay
Explore Startable (Jun 9 2010)
...March, we undertook the task of gathering granular information regarding the venture communities in Boston, Palo Alto and New York… We received response from 307 entrepreneurs. Collectively, these businesses have created more than...
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Suggestions for Angel Investors
Explore Feld Thoughts (Jun 2 2010)
I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. I wasn’t able to make it to Boston yesterday for the Angel Boot Camp as I was running around NYC with the CEO [...] Suggestions for An...
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What the Bubble Got Right
Explore Paul Graham (May 21 2010)
...headed man installed by the VCs more like a music group's manager than a general. 5. Informality In New York, the Bubble had dramatic consequences: suits went out of fashion. They made one seem old. So in 199......) What makes the Bay Area superior is the attitude of the people. I notice that when I come home to Boston. The first thing I see when I walk out of ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: America Jessica Livingston Enron
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How to Be Silicon Valley
Explore Paul Graham (May 21 2010)
...the conversion of buildings not previously public, like warehouses. ] A few startups get started in New York, but less than a tenth as many per capita as in Boston, and mostly in less nerdy fields like finance and media. ] Some blue counties are false positives (... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: America Boston Philadelphia
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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
Explore Paul Graham (May 21 2010)
...der. 2. Bad Location Startups prosper in some places and not others. Silicon Valley dominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. After that there's not much. Even in New York the number of startups per capita is probably a 20th of what it is in Silicon Valley. In towns like... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Oracle Boston Fred Brooks
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Why to Move to a Startup Hub
Explore Paul Graham (May 21 2010) Funding
... the startups from those cycles that their best bet is to move to Silicon Valley. If that's true of Boston, it's even more true of every other city. This is about cities, not countries. And I think I can pr......r off in one of its centers. A startup doing something related to entertainment might want to be in New York or LA. And finally, if a good ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: America Jessica Livingston Boston
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Cities and Ambition
Explore Paul Graham (May 21 2010)
...e message that one should be more aristocratic. If you listen for it you can also hear it in Paris, New York, and Boston. But this message is everywhere very faint. It would have been strong 100 years ago, but now I prob... (Read Full Article)
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How to Hire a Hacker in NYC
Explore - This is going to be BIG! (May 10 2010) Recruiting
... mirror. Everyday, lots of people fall in love and get married—even in big, unfriendly cities like New York. They hire hackers, too. The “trick” is that it just takes some time, the right mindset, and, mos......$10 million in revs. That doesn’t even mean pulling people out of the Valley. Tried RPI, Cornell, Boston, or DC yet? Regional is a minimum area for an important search. How to ... (Read Full Article)
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Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak
Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (May 10 2010)
...l search site on the web (and one of the top 1,000 most popular sites on the web). Kayak is great Boston-area success story. One quick point on that: In Dec 2007, with just 39 employees, Kayak raised $...... all merchants, where they show you a limited set of inventory. [14:04] If you look for a hotel in New York tonight, Expedia won't show you every hotel ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Greylock Boston Tim O'Reilly
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Blind Men and an Elephant- Nature Versus Nurture and Entrepreneurship
Explore Steve Blank (Apr 19 2010)
... years and say the same about why there are so few woman entrepreneurs today? Today Silicon Valley, New York and Boston are magnets for entrepreneurs in the U.S. (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Boston Fred Wilson Jason Calacanis
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