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The Four Cities Every Startup Should Invest in Visiting

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. This presents out-of-towners with opportunities to connect with fellow startup leaders and potential investors. Nashville, Tennessee.

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walk

But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth.

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Nigerian founders-turn-investors are now running syndicate funds

TechCrunch

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. This is because most of the capital in Africa for promising startups is typically distributed among many investors.

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