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Sisterhood of Success: Female Founders Share Insights on Thriving Together

Entrepreneurs' Organization

She provided me with so much advice on business strategy, business channels and HR. The best advice she ever gave me, though, was to join the EO to build my leadership skills and my support network. My first female mentor was the incredible Janine Allis , founder of Boost Juice.

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The two powerful skills every 10X entrepreneur needs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Martin Bell, who sits on Arowana’s advisory board, founded 100tasks.com to democratize entrepreneurship and is an expert in launching and hyper-scaling companies. Within only 100 days, new leadership transformed the tech platform, marketing mix, and rider operations–elevating it from laggard to leader. Tech and Processes.

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Preparing for fintech’s second decade: 4 moves your firm must make now

TechCrunch

Companies such as E*TRADE, Rocket Mortgage, and TurboTax began to disrupt the established financial services sector well before 2012, but that year marked the turning point when fintech morphed into a sustained movement that would drastically change how most people manage their money. Here are four steps you can take to remain competitive.

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Garry Tan is the next president and CEO of Y Combinator

TechCrunch

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. Since inception, my goal has always been for Initialized to outlive its founders.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Hamet is an extension of this strategy. So what gives? Mark, why wouldn’t you fund him?

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Your deal flow is not diverse enough

TechCrunch

Empowering women and people of color to drive the investment strategy of venture firms is the fastest and most effective course correction” for the lack of gender-diverse portfolios, the Women in VC report said. Even more interesting, another study argues that women make better board directors than men. of VC partners in the U.S.