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- 22 | May, Drew Banks, Prezi
At StartOut's Fall’10 networking event at San Francisco’s Press Club, Prezi CEO Peter Arvia met ...
read more - 16 | May, Mark Williams, New Light Energy Design
Mark joined the San Francisco Chapter of StartOut with his Energy Efficient Lighting business for th...
read more - 6 | May, Matt Lombardi, Hear It Local
"The relationships that we’ve developed through StartOut have played a significant role in our ear...
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3 | May, VentureOut: Profiling Kathy Levinson, a pioneer in advocating for women and the LGBT community within the workplaceVentureOut: Kathy Levinson - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by...
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3 | May, StartOut Awards 4 Outstanding LGBT LeadersPioneers Tim Gill, Heather Hiles, Jordan Goldman and Zoe Dunning Recognized at StartOut’s 2nd Annu...
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2 | May, Support StartOut on "Give OUT Day"At our 2013 LGBT Entrepreneurship Awards, we announced StartOut's participation in the first-annual ...
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1 | May, Social Media Tips For the StartupIf you’re a startup owner and you want people to find you, then social media must be a solid p...
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4 | Apr, Scholarship Recipients Announced for StartOut’s Pilot Program StartOut Smart: The Founder InstituteSan Francisco, CA - April 4, 2013 StartOut Smart: The Founder Institute is a pilot program provid...
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29 | Mar, The Profit in “Freemium”When it comes to pricing your product or service, if you’re in the tech industry; it may actually ...
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28 | Mar, OutGrade: Changing Minds One Person at a TimeVentureOut: Travis Lowry - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by D...
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6 | Mar, StartOut’s Tech Dinner – Discovering SideTourLast night at StartOut’s NY Tech Dinner hosted by Pivotal Labs, rising startup SideTour’s Co-Fou...
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1 | Mar, StartOut Announces Full Slate of Recipients for Entrepreneurship AwardsRecognizing Outstanding LGBT Entrepreneurs San Francisco, CA March 1, 2013 Today StartOut announ...
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28 | Feb, StartOut and Internet Week NY Join Forces at 2013 SXSWStep On Up to the Carnival at the Conduit Corner during SXSW Interactive San Francisco, CA Feb 28, ...
read more- 26 | Feb, The 5 Best Free Marketing Tools
Having started businesses myself I know how costly it can be to start up. That’s why when I find a...
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26 | Feb, Hear It Local: Bringing Music to Your DoorstepVentureOut: Matt Lombardi - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by ...
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20 | Feb, Napkin Venture: From Sketch to RealityVentureOut: Tina Cannon - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by Da...
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19 | Feb, 2013 Out for Undergraduate Technology ConferenceDroves of LGBT undergrads descended on Facebook's Campus in Menlo Park, CA earlier this month for th...
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5 | Feb, StartOut NY Launches First Event in StartOut Smart Series“StartOut Smart: Turn Your Idea into a Business” is the first in a series of events that will fo...
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4 | Feb, StartOut Announces Second-Annual Entrepreneurship AwardsRecognizing Outstanding LGBT Entrepreneurs San Francisco, CA – Feb 4, 2013 The Awards ...
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31 | Jan, Bringing Presentations to a Different LevelVentureOut: Peter Arvai - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by Da...
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29 | Jan, StartOut Partners With The Founder Institute to Support LGBT EntrepreneursLaunches New Program StartOut Smart: The Founder Institute New York, NY – Jan 29, 2013 Start...
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18 | Jan, Bringing Gourmet to Your DoorstepVentureOut: Ian Ferguson - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by D...
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10 | Jan, Applications Now Open For 2013 Lesbian Entrepreneur Mentoring ProgramIn keeping with StartOut’s commitment to support entrepreneurs in the LGBT community, we’re thri...
read more- 2 | Jan, 2013 StartUp Trends
It’s that time of the year, when all the trends for the following year come out… Soothsayers, ps...
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27 | Dec, The Next Level of Social SharingVentureOut: Rick Vidal - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by Dav...
read more- 27 | Dec, 3 Things to Avoid If You Want to Make a Sale
There are a plethora of blog posts, podcasts, webinars etc. telling you what to do if you want to co...
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20 | Dec, Two Women At The Top of Their GameVentureOut: Sue Conley & Peggy Smith - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartO...
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30 | Nov, Out Entrepreneur, Heather Hiles Says We Are More Than a Bubble TestVentureOut: Heather Hiles - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by ...
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29 | Nov, Out Entrepreneur Helps Companies ‘Regroup’VentureOut: Joe DiPasquale - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by...
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24 | Nov, Meet the Lesbian Entrepreneur Mentoring Program's Class of 2012 Entrepreneurs & MentorsBy Leanne Pittsford, Co-Chair of the Lesbian Entrepreneur Mentoring Program and StartOut Board Membe...
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23 | Nov, StartOut hosts pitch competition at Reaching Out LGBT MBA Conference 2012BOSTON - Oct 20th, 2012: StartOut was pleased to sponsor the 2nd Annual Entrepreneurship Pitch Compe...
read more- 2 | Nov, The Pricing Model Equation
Bear in mind that although there is a handful of pricing model “archetypes;” the best pricing mo...
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28 | Oct, StartOut hosts its first Demo Day + Networking Event in association with NYTMNEW YORK – On Tuesday, October 23, StartOut proudly launched its first Demo Day + Networking event...
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26 | Oct, StartOut Receives $250,000 Grant To Develop LGBT EntrepreneursNew York, New York – StartOut, a nonprofit that helps create great business leaders by fostering L...
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18 | Oct, StartOut at OUBC (Out Undergraduate Business Conference)New York - StartOut was pleased to participate in OUBC (Out For Undergraduate Business Conference),...
read more- 4 | Oct, Oh No You Didn’t: 3 Major Email Newsletter Mistakes
Oh, the monthly email newsletter. I could probably write an ode to this tried and true marketing dev...
read more - 1 | Oct, Marketing 101: The Power of Partnerships
You can’t do it all alone! This saying is especially true in small business marketing. There are m...
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26 | Sep, Announcing the 2012 Bay Area Pipeline Fellowship Pitch SummitThe Pipeline Fellowship opens call for applications from women social entrepreneurs. New York, Se...
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6 | Sep, What Is My Brand DNA? 3 Questions to AskI remember a few months ago when I was watching TV and a new Charles Schwab commercial came on. I ca...
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3 | Sep, Meet The Out Developer Who Built a Website to Save You MoneyVentureOut: Philip Camilleri - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written ...
read more- 29 | Aug, Hiring A SEO Firm: Tips, Tricks & Red Flags
In the past, I’ve had disappointing experiences hiring the wrong firms to manage my startup’s SE...
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26 | Aug, Via Forbes: Gay in Silicon Valley, A Founder's PerspectiveThis article originally appeared in Forbes Magazine, by author Scott Allison. One of the wonderfu...
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16 | Aug, Vote for StartOut's SXSW Panel: Tech's Most Disruptive GEOsWe've applied for an interactive session at SXSW entitled "Tech's Most Disruptive GEOs" featuring Ma...
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16 | Aug, Learn How StartOut is Helping Lesbians Break The Glass CeilingThe article below originally appeared in Curve Magazine, by author Lisa Gunther. If you're intere...
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14 | Aug, Delegation to Palestine TerritoriesStartOut members have been invited to join Partners for a New Beginning, in an Entrepreneurship Dele...
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9 | Aug, Are Gay People Better Entrepreneurs?The article below originally appeared in Inc.com by author Issie Lapowsky. It's rare to find an o...
read more- 7 | Aug, Who's Your Ideal Client?
If you’re starting up, it’s important to identify your ideal client before you start marketing t...
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5 | Aug, What Out CEO Ramona Pierson Says Can Only Be Learned From ExperienceVentureOut: Ramona Pierson - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by...
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2 | Aug, Gay CEO Takes Company From MIT to TVVentureOut: Conor Madigan - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by ...
read more- 24 | Jul, Taking Your Business to the Next Level…
Yesterday I had a meeting with a woman who started a small business several years ago, which has gro...
read more - 10 | Jul, 3 Tips On How to Land A Lucrative Partner
When I was trying to get noticed after I launched NuKitchen, the online diet service, I tried just a...
read more - 26 | Jun, It's Not the Idea But the Execution that Matters
I was recently giving a talk to some aspiring entrepreneurs when a young woman- let’s call her Chr...
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19 | Jun, Congratulations to StartOut supporter, Neil GuilianoCongratulations to StartOut supporter, Neil Guiliano on the launch of him book, The Campaign With...
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19 | Jun, Discount for StartOut Members at the International Startup FestivalThe International Startup Festival, in its second year, is an event about the business of startups....
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19 | Jun, Looking For Funding?No big surprise, I get a lot of questions from entrepreneurs about funding—specifically on how to ...
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18 | Jun, StartOut Names LGBT Business Leader as Director of OperationsTony Moraga brings extensive experience in the LGBT business community and non-profit leadership to ...
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12 | Jun, From StartOut Member Chris Shipley: Make It MatterMake It Matter Via Guidewire Group I’m worried. Maybe I’m worried in that “you’re gett...
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11 | Jun, Turning down Investor $$$Raising money has been one of the most challenging experiences of building my businesses. The ‘ask...
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8 | Jun, StartOut Members Kathy Wolfe & Maria Lynn Launch New Venture: Lesbian.comVia Curve Magazine EXCLUSIVE: Big News for Lesbians Only A new online community for lesbians b...
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4 | Jun, A world of play is online at KidlandiaVentureOut: Brian Backus - Highlighting LGBT leaders in business. Powered by StartOut. Written by D...
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4 | Jun, When It Pays to Have A Legal ServiceMany bootstrapping and aspiring entrepreneurs want to save money on legal costs. It’s no wonder wh...
read more- 30 | May, The Founder Institute is happy to announce the "StartOut LGBT Fellowship"
The Founder Institute is happy to announce the "StartOut LGBT Fellowship" - a program designed to fo...
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29 | May, Open Call for Female Media Entrepreneurs - Springboard Media & Tech 2012StartOut partner Springboard Enterprises is looking for female media & tech entrepreneurs to par...
read more- 28 | May, CURVE Magazine Highlights Lesbian Entrepreneur Mentorship Program
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: StartOut is helping to put lesbians in the corner office. ...
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14 | May, Tips for Working the CrowdNetworking is about making connections that ultimately can help you find the resources you need to b...
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7 | May, Keep It Simple, Stupid!Ok, so I don’t really want to call anyone ‘stupid’. I just want to reinforce that keeping thin...
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7 | May, Looking for an entrepreneur to travel to the Caribbean to speak at a conference.Hello StartOut Entrepreneurs, A government department has asked us if we know of anybody that wou...
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6 | May, Increasing Women Entrepreneurship: StartOut’s Lesbian Entrepreneur Mentorship ProgramThis article originally appeared on Women 2.0 By Leanne Pittsford (Founder & CEO, StartSomewhere ...
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2 | Apr, StartOut Launches New Website and New VideoIt's been an exciting time at StartOut! Following our first-ever StartOut Entrepreneur Awards, whi...
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- 19 | Mar, Thank you to all who attended the First-Ever StartOut LGBT Entrepreneur Awards
The StartOut Board would like to thank everyone for making the first-ever StartOut Entrepreneur ...
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8 | Mar, First Ever LGBT Entrepreneurship AwardsStartOut to Host First-Ever LGBT Entrepreneurship Awards Featuring Keynote Speaker Peter Thiel ...
read more- 8 | Mar, New Pilot Program - Lesbian Entrepreneur Mentoring Program
StartOut Announces: In keeping with StartOut's commitment to create wealth and opportunity in the L...
read more - 27 | Feb, Low Cost Tips for Incorporating Your Business
When starting a business, most people place emphasis on the idea of its viability and its pote...
read more - 20 | Feb, The Business Of Chess
What do chess and business have to do with each other? Well, it turns out quite a bit- the art of st...
read more - 13 | Feb, Integrity - Are You “Whole”?
In managing a startup or small business, it's easy to get caught up in work 24/7 and let everything...
read more - 31 | Jan, Low Cost Marketing Strategies
I've found that when first starting up, marketing is such an important component of your business su...
read more - 23 | Jan, Startup Funding From A VC? Think Again...
Getting Venture Capital- VC- funding is very unlikely if you're a newbie entrepreneur- unless you've...
read more - 16 | Jan, Trends in 2012 to Help Startups Get Going!
At the beginning of each year, I like to think about what the big trends are for startups that mak...
read more - 3 | Jan, Building an Effective Board From Two Types of Directors
By Amy Errett, Venture Capitalist and StartOut Board Member Entrepreneurs must make many critical d...
read more - 13 | Dec, Why VCs Should Earn the Right to Invest in your Company
By Amy Errett, Venture Capitalist and StartOut Board Member The current excitement among entreprene...
read more - 5 | Dec, That’s a Dumb Idea!
...This is something that I would rarely say outright. There seem to be lots of crazy ideas that suc...
read more - 21 | Nov, Does a VC with Operating Experience help the Startup Entrepreneur?
By Amy Errett, Venture Capitalist and StartOut Board Member The common adage goes, a banker provide...
read more - 15 | Nov, You’re not alone! Get Connected to Get Ahead…
When I began my first big entrepreneurial effort, I really felt alone. I thought I was the only pers...
read more - 31 | Oct, MENTORING: WHY ENTREPRENEURS NEED MORE THAN JUST ‘OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE’
By Amy Errett, Venture Capitalist and StartOut Board Member Mentoring is an age-old practice of tra...
read more - 25 | Oct, Osnik- the journey of an iphone app developer
So far this year, the trend in starting new businesses by developing smartphone applications (a.k.a ...
read more - 17 | Oct, FROM CEO TO VC: MY TRIP TO THE NOT-SO-DARK SIDE
By Amy Errett, Venture Capitalist and StartOut Board Member After a 25-year career as a CEO, entrep...
read more - 9 | Oct, 3 Leadership Pitfalls… Don’t fall prey to them!
Leadership is not dead! Though it may seem it's been missing lately, there's still a pulse. Look to ...
read more - 3 | Oct, A New Wave of Consumer Finance Companies
By Amy Errett, Venture Capitalist and StartOut Board Member Every 20 years or so, consumer demand a...
read more - 28 | Sep, Stop Whining! Drop the negative attitude…
Energy flows where attention goes so negative thinking will take you down and keep you down. We can'...
read more - 12 | Sep, Tips for Pricing Your Product
I've got an amazing new product... but wait a minute, what do I charge for it? Pricing a product or ...
read more - 22 | Aug, I Have a Great Idea… Now, give me the $$$ funding
Everyday I’m approached by enthusiastic aspiring entrepreneurs who want to talk about an idea ...
read more - 15 | Aug, Actions speak louder than words
So you have a great idea: the next killer app, a hot new baked good, jewelry made from raw-hid...
read more - 8 | Aug, StartOut SF Networking Mixer Event
by Colby Michaels, A Musing Geek On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of attending my first ever GLBT bus...
read more - 1 | Aug, What If You’re Hit By A Bus?
When you’re starting a business, succession planning is often an afterthought (if it’s even thou...
read more - 14 | Jul, How should I approach investors for seed money?
Guest Blogger: Mike Sullivan www.pillsburylaw.com/mikesullivan Although I'm a lawyer, I spend a ...
read more - 11 | Jul, Low Costing Marketing- 3 tips for landing a lucrative partner
When I was trying to get noticed after I launched NuKitchen, the online diet service, I tried just a...
read more - 5 | Jul, Turning down an Investor $$$
Raising money has been one of the most challenging experiences of building my businesses. The ‘a...
read more - 7 | Feb, Integrity- Are You “Whole”?
In managing a startup or small business, it’s easy to get caught up in work 24/7 and let ever...
read more - 17 | Oct, Peter Sisson
Peter Sisson is the Founder and CEO of Line2. Here he talks to StartOut about getting venture fundi...
read more - 3 | Jun, Lorenzo Thione
Lorenzo Thione founded Powerset, Inc., an innovative search startup, in 2005 with the vision of brin...
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