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Runway, the stylish tech incubator in the Twitter building at 1355 Market Street, is the product of Allan Young’s experience and imagination. Allan is a Y Combinator alum, graduate of Seth Godin’s Alternative MBA Program, native of San Francisco’s Chinatown,…
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San Francisco is experiencing a gold rush. Tech and business prospectors are flocking here from all over the world to find their fortune. Competition is cutthroat for jobs, internships, venture capital – you name it. Apartments are hard to find…
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Steve Hoffman’s long, strange, and successful track record includes colorful stints – as a Hollywood development executive in Los Angeles, designer with Sega Enterprises in Tokyo, founder of an interactive television production company and small computer gaming firm, and now, nurturing…
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This is our first story translated into Chinese. The growing China-San Francisco connection has inspired us to translate our SmartUp stories. Thanks to Haosheng Wang, a student of entrepreneurism and innovation at the University of San Francisco, we are happy…
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