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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. That’s how I found the VC FinTech Accelerator in 2016, where one-third of founders were from minority backgrounds. hit nearly $1.8

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

The country’s focus on education, business, and innovation has made it the 11th largest economy and the fifth largest exporter of goods and services globally. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem.

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Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

Based in Detroit, Autobooks offers a number of wellness benefits, plus great financial and educational benefits. Qodex is a Detroit-based startup that offers web-based, AI-leveraged automated tools and solutions to the healthcare industry to accomplish tasks more efficiently. Apply now to Autobooks. Our Next Energy.

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6 Miami-based investors share their views on the region’s startup scene

TechCrunch

Who are key startup people you see creating success locally, whether investors, founders or even other types of startup ecosystem roles like lawyers, designers, growth experts, etc. Where do you see Miami’s startup scene five years from now? David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca. That’s still missing here.

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com. 39:40 – What’s a strong opinion he had about running a startup that he’s changed since running Meesho? 41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? Vidit Aatrey is cofounder and CEO of Meesho.

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