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Tom Furlong of Granite Ventures

Tom Furlong

Tom Furlong joined Granite Ventures in July 2000, after a successful career in Silicon Valley that most recently saw him as Vice President and General Counsel at Zhone Technologies, a communications equipment provider.

Prior to Zhone, Tom was a partner with the leading emerging growth company law firm of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, where he spent 13 years counseling technology companies, venture capitalists and investment banks. His clients included Adobe, Applied Signal, Ascend Communications, Datapath, Network General, Silicon Spice, SynOptics, Vantive, and Visigenic. While at Gray Cary, Tom was also a manager of their investment partnerships and sponsored several profitable investments. Read More...

Carl Showalter of Opus Capital

Carl Showalter

Carl Showalter brings more than 12 years of executive experience to Opus from innovative and market-making technology companies such as Juniper Networks and UUNET. Carl’s current areas of interest include the Internet of Things, network virtualization, next generation wireless, and data center/cloud infrastructure software.

Before joining Opus Carl was a General Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners. Prior to this Carl served as Vice President of Marketing at Juniper Networks, where he built and led a global marketing and product management organization. Before Juniper, Carl was Vice President of Dial and Broadband Services for UUNET, overseeing the 300-person, $1B revenue division. He also held various sales and management positions at ANS, an AOL company, where he helped build AOL’s modem access network and then helped launch hardware-based firewalls and IP VPNs in the mid 1990’s. Read More...

HatchMe – Incubator focused on University Startups

HatchMe is a startup incubator with a focus on incubating university entrepreneurs’ ideas and school projects to build the next big thing to improve the world.

Their main initiative is to discover talented entrepreneurs from all colleges and universities who by themselves don’t have the time, resources or connections to bring their ideas to life. HatchMe partners with influencers, educators and financiers in the entrepreneurial ecosystem to transform ideas to startups to success.

From what we can tell, this incubator is pretty new. They don’t have a lot up on their website yet, but you can check it out at http://hatchme.com/ Read More...

Co-working & Shared Spaces for Startups in Cities Across the USA

Coworking is a style of work which involves a shared working environment. Unlike in a typical office environment, those co-working are usually not employed by the same organization.

We’re focusing here on co-working spaces targeted at the nomadic internet entrepreneur, seeking an alternative to working in coffee shops, garages and living rooms.

We’ve compiled a list below of coworking spaces in major cities across the United States. If we missed any coworking spaces, please add them in the comments section below! Read More...

Co-working Spaces & Shared Offices in San Francisco & Silicon Valley

We keep getting asked about coworking and shared office space in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Let me tell you, there is an abundance of places to choose from.

Founders Space
https://www.foundersspace.com/coworking/

Spaces
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LaunchRock – Landing Pages Made Easy & Viral

LaunchRock helps you instantly build a prelaunch landing page and adds all the hooks so that it can go viral.

Here’s some adivce they give on their site:

Five lessons for a friend-fueled viral launch page: Read More...

Strategies for your Startup Business to Succeed

by Jason Holmes

There are some things in life that the more you have the better it is for you. When it comes to a startup business, growth is such a factor. However, it is not that growth in a startup business is all good and no bad. There are some pains that come with growth and you can find out and employ strategies and tactics in order to manage growth for maximum amount of success. The main motive of a startup business is capitalizing on a given opportunity. When your business is growing, you will get plenty of opportunities. Your challenge will be to find the right one and focus on it and not be distracted by the others. This challenge of focus is omnipresent in all aspects of a startup business starting from strategic choices regarding product development to everyday decision making and increasing productivity. Also you have to combine flexibility along with focus as major goals since startup businesses usually compete in markets that are rapidly evolving. Here are some tips that can help you stay on the path of focus and follow the path of success.

Don’t select too many things to do – The main idea behind focus is that you have to try and be good at a few things than being mediocre in a number of things. This principle can effectively be applied to your core competitive advantage, the high level strategic goals you have come up with, the tactical plans you are going to use and your everyday priorities along with your enduring cultural values. You should avoid complexity at all costs. Read More...

Startup Incubator for Teens — Teens in Tech

What’s next — an incubator for those over 70? Probably not, but Teens in Tech is a good idea. Get kids when they’re young and teach them valuable lessons in business.

The Teens in Tech Incubator is an eight week hands-on program for entrepreneurs between the ages of 13-19 who are serious about building products and learning about entrepreneurship.

Through the eight-week program, teams will experience what it means to start a company and build a product. With over 60 top startup mentors around the world, seed funding, an amazing office in the heart of Silicon Valley, and a vibrant community of entrepreneurs, we help our companies succeed through hands-on experience. Read More...

Bolt – An Accelerator for Physical Products

Ben Einstein

Ben Einstein is launching a new accelerator program called Bolt. This accelerator is unique in that it will focus on entrepreneurs who want to design physical products, like talking backpacks and virtual glasses.

So if you have any wild ideas for physical products, this might be your chance. The only catch is that you’ll have to be in Boston. That’s where the accelerator will be located. Read More...