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Move your startup to Ohio and you could earn $500,000
If you’re a female or minority and you move your startup to Ohio you could receive $500,000 in funding. Cleveland-based JumpStart, a nonprofit that invests in young tech firms, is offering 20 companies the chance to earn half a million dollars by relocating to the state. The company has launched a $10 million seed fund […]
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Startup Founders Are Super Pessimistic About Raising Money Right Now
Startup founders are super pessimistic about raising new rounds of funding right now. That’s according to a new survey of startups in 2015 from First Round Capital. “Some of these findings showed more of a lack of optimism, or more pessimism is a better way of saying it, than we’d been expecting,” said Josh Kopelman, a partner […]
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Why Are Subscription Box Companies So Popular?
For years, the subscription box has helped us solve some lives previously unsolvable problems. How am I supposed to remember to buy razor blade refills? What if I want a new pair of shoes every month? Subscription boxes offer not only unique items and may prevent a trip to the store, but also the singular […]
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Why These 10 Promising Startups Failed
That good startups sometimes – or even often – fail is not a new story. Countless bright-eyed entrepreneurs and savvy business folk have thrown their lot in for a promising, idealistic or ingenious idea only to see their investments of time and money crash in flames a short time later. For years it’s been happening […]