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Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting 1,000,000 entrepreneurs in over 250 cities. We nurture startup ecosystems in 105 countries through events, media, and partnerships with organizations like Google for Entrepreneurs.

We are hosting a conference in Silicon Valley on the 12-14 Feb 2018 - come meet 6000 other entrepreneurs, 300 startups and over 100 investors over 3 life-changing days.

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Alexa von Tobel (LearnVest) Make your Passion a Startup

Dec 15, 2014

Alexa von Tobel is the founder and CEO of LearnVest.com, and the New York Times-Bestselling Author of Financially Fearless. Alexa, is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER who attended Harvard College and Harvard Business School, Alexa launched LearnVest in 2009 to pursue her dream of bringing financial literacy and advice to...

David Teten (ff Venture Capital) Algorithmic Investing

Dec 10, 2014

David Teten is a serial entrepreneur, Partner with ff Venture Capital, and Founder and Chairman of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York. ff VC has made over 200 investments in over 70 companies since 1999. HBS Alumni Angels of NY is the second-largest angel network in New York. He formerly served...

Anthony Casalena (Squarespace) The 10 year "Overnight" Success

Dec 8, 2014

Anthony Casalena is the Founder and CEO of Squarespace, which he started from his dorm room in 2003. During the company's early years, Anthony acted as the sole engineer, designer, and support representative for the entire Squarespace platform, allowing for it to be a stable business from the outset. In addition to his...

Jeff Smith (Smule) Fostering a Culture of Creativity

Dec 3, 2014

Jeff Smith, CEO of Smule, spoke to Startup Grind Silicon Valley on 01/27/2011. Smule is an American mobile app developer headquartered in San Francisco. The company specializes in developing social music-making applications for iOS, Android, and Amazon.com Kindle Fire. Some of their most popular apps are Magic Piano,...

Vernon Hill (Metro Bank) Building Your Companies Fanbase

Dec 1, 2014

Vernon is known to have reinvented American banking. He founded Commerce Bank (voted best bank in America by Jd Power in 2006, 2007 and 2008) and was its CEO until it was sold in 2007 for $8.5 billion.

In 2010 he founded Metrobank, the first high street bank in the UK in more than 100 years. His mission:...