This is just a great post from Mark Suster: How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene We’ve seen a lot of these things said, individually, but this list is concise and complete. If you want a thriving startup community in your city, you need
Tomasz Tunguz did a small survey on investment rates, sorted by geographic location, using some CrunchBase data. As he admits in the blog post, this is a very small data set and some of the cities have so few startups in the data (Houston with
An excellent post from my friend and fellow entrepreneur, Bryan Hassin: The Green Knight: Startups Should Never Pay to Pitch. An excerpt: These pay-to-pitch scams start off innocently enough. There is often no mention of a fee up front. Then, if you “apply” (a classic
Our recent Semi-Finalist announcement has been featured in articles by The Journal Record and the Tulsa Business & Legal News website, TulsaBusiness.com. Check out the article summaries below for a quick preview of the articles! LaunchOklahoma announces 2014 semi-finalists “LaunchOklahoma recently announced 10 semi-finalist
Our 2013 accelerator graduate, SIVI, has won a contract to help in the development of the Las Alamos Venture Accelerator (LAVA). Under the direction of the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation (LACDC), the entrepreneurial community of Los Alamos, New Mexico has pulled together
Here’s my most recent presentation, prepared for the SpringBeta 2014 Conference in Oklahoma City, an event sponsored in part by LaunchOklahoma. 5 Steps to Traction for your Startup in 5 Minutes:
Thanks to the OpenBeta organization, The 404 co-working facility, and everyone who came out for another fantastic SpringBeta tech event! LaunchOklahoma is excited that we could be a sponsor at the event and see so many entrepreneurs, startups, and techies from the community. The event
In case you missed this video, here’s our SpringBeta 2014 presentation: 5 Steps to Traction for your Startup in 5 Minutes!
Now that we have announced our 2014 LaunchOklahoma Semi-Finalists, we want everyone to learn about these great startups! These Semi-Finalists have been selected out of a great pool of applications this year and there is still time to apply! We invite you to get to know
I got quoted in Inc. Magazine article “Six Ways to Get Even the Most Difficult Clients On Board” with five fellow members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. They asked us, how we get difficult clients to buy into our ideas, products, and services. My quote focused