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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.

Here for more info: startupgrind.com/conference

Survival in the Startup World with Reid Hoffman and Greg Tseng

Jul 25, 2014

In this amazing conversation from this year’s Startup Grind Conference, Tagged CEO Greg Tseng spoke with his long-time mentor Reid Hoffman, a partner at Greylock and cofounder of LinkedIn. The two discussed survival in the startup world and keys to being a successful entrepreneur.

Reid and Greg also talk about...

Deciding What Funding to Take With Leah Busque

Jul 24, 2014

Leah Busque is the founder of TaskRabbit.com, a trailblazer in service networking. Now an industry-wide concept, service networking describes the productive power of a web-based, social-networked community. Since its founding in 2008, Leah has grown the company to more than 50 employees and has expanded the service to...

Picking the Right Investors with Mike Abbott

Jul 21, 2014

Mike Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner in 2011, focusing on helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. He is an expert on enterprise infrastructure, cloud computing and “big data.”

An engineer, investor and entrepreneur, Mike...

Create Great Corporate Culture with Rich Raddon (ZEFR)

Jul 18, 2014

Richard Raddon, the co-founder of ZEFR, knows great content, having begun his career as an assistant to the late writer/director/producer John Hughes in Chicago.

Rich is responsible for leading ZEFR’s overall strategy and operations, as well as overseeing the content and distribution strategy and partnerships with...

The Future of Innovation and Finding Your "X" with Megan Smith

Jul 16, 2014

Megan Smith is the Vice President of Google[x]. She oversees teams that manage early-stage partnerships, pilot explorations, and technology licensing working closely with Google's engineering and product teams globally. She joined Google in 2003 and has led several of the company's acquisitions, including Keyhole...