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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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Why Large Companies Need Entrepreneurs with David Eun (Samsung Innovation Center)

Aug 29, 2014

David Eun, is Executive Vice President and Head of the Open Innovation Center, Samsung Electronics. As Head of the Open Innovation Center, David leads Samsung's efforts to develop new software services to complement the company's diverse set of hardware devices. In this capacity, he is responsible for early stage...

Justin Kan on What He Would Do With $1 Billion

Aug 27, 2014

Justin Kan is co-founder of Twitch, a video game streaming platform. Yesterday Twitch announced their purchase by Amazon for $970 million. Prior to Twitch Justin launched Kiko, the first AJAX web calendar; Justin.tv, a live video streaming platform; Socialcam, a mobile video sharing app (acquired for $60mm by Autodesk...

How Culture Can Make or Break Your Startup with Julia Hartz (Eventbrite)

Aug 25, 2014

Julia Hartz is co-founder and President of Eventbrite, which has processed $2 billion in gross ticket sales for organizers in 179 countries. Julia is responsible for building, evolving and sustaining the global ticketing company’s growing team of 300 “Britelings” and award-winning company culture (voted “Best...

The Internet of Things with Alex Hawkinson (SmartThings)

Aug 22, 2014

Alex Hawkinson is the Founder and CEO of SmartThings. Last week they announced the purchase of SmartThings by Samsung for $200 million.

Alex is an entrepreneur and thought leader in the emerging “Internet of Things” space. Alex believes that the Physical Graph represents the next major phase of the Internet...

Lessons Learned From Near Bankruptcy to IPO with Reggie Aggarwal (Cvent)

Aug 20, 2014

Reggie Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, a publicly-traded cloud -based software company focused on event management. Aggarwal led Cvent from a two-person startup to a 1,450-person company with a $1 + billion market capitalization. Cvent has helped more than 12,600 organizations manage hundreds of thousands of...