Looking 3 Steps Ahead: What Comes After the Startup Ideation Phase
What are the next steps after you come up with an idea for a new business? After the ideation phase of a business, many teams loose focus. Fortunately, there is a tried and true blueprint that successful companies in all industries have followed in order to take a business entity from a spreadsheet into the […]
7 Lessons Learned From A Vegas Tech Startup Conference
“ It’s A different kind of Vegas.” Collision Conference invaded and innovated downtown Las Vegas, Nevada Cinco De May and 6th. The 48 hour “crash course” included 7500 attendees representing 89 different countries, with a legendary guest-list that included: 200 WorldClass Speakers, 1000 Startup Businesses, 451 Tech Investors, and countless “smart” entrepreneurs. Equally as interesting […]
How to Launch 13 EdTech Startups in 54 Hours
Sound like an impossible task? Step inside Startup Weekend NYCEDU, a 3-day event that occurred March 27- 29th 2015 in New York City. Within the four walls of The World School, teams of entrepreneurs, educators, developers, and designers collaborated to bring education technology concepts into creation in a mere 54 hours. #SWnycedu kicked off Friday […]
Where to Meet Venture Capitalists?
As a Startup Entrepreneur stepping outside of your comfort zone is a daily norm, especially in the search of funding for your business. Scoring a meeting with a Venture Capitalist becomes a network juggling act between strategy and innovation. A key point to remember when approaching VC’s is that the question always on the top […]
San Diego High-Tech Startup Scene Booms
In March of last year Forbes Magazine named San Diego the best city to start a business in 2014. Apparently the magazine was onto something, as demonstrated in the recently released San Diego Innovation Report by Connect. According to the report, which tracks and compares economic data in the region from the past year and […]
Recruiting a CTO Co-Founder for Your Startup
Many technology based startups are founded by entrepreneurs without technical backgrounds. The tech companies that are successful, quickly realize the importance of bringing on a technical co-founder. The biggest mistake that a non-tech entrepreneur can make when launching a tech business is to neglect bringing on a tech savvy co-founder very early on. Otherwise, it […]
Artificial Intelligence: The Trend For Tech Startups
Looking to get funded in 2015? Why not add some elements of the “The Terminator” & “The Matrix” to your Startup Business model. Funding increased 302% for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startups in 2014. Pouring in over $309.2 million in over 40 deals. That’s more than 20-fold in just 4 years from $14.9 million in 2010. […]
The Startup Garage’s Top 10 Best Blogs of 2014
2014 was a momentous year for entrepreneurs and startup companies around the globe. Through out the year The Startup Garage has shared our knowledge, resources, and insights with you in efforts to skyrocket your success. Below our Top 10 Best Blogs of 2014, we hope you find them invaluable and worth referencing time and time […]
Why A Business Plan Is Essential When Crowdfunding Your Startup
Letting the crowd fund your startup doesn’t mean allowing your business plan to go unwritten. In the business world, approximately 543,000 new businesses get started each month and funding those businesses comes from a variety of sources. Most recently, startups are beginning to utilize crowdfunding sites to promote their ventures and raise the capital they […]
How To Define a Small Business Vs. a High-Growth Startup
Difference between a Small Business and a High-Growth Startup A startup business differs from a small business in one primary aspect: Growth. A startup company, also referred to as a high-growth startup, is a company with a business model that is designed to be repeatable and scalable. This is directly opposed to a small business […]
