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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Ten years on much has changed.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. They saw the opportunity to develop products that assist in the intellectual development of a child from a very early age. According to the EEOC, 83 percent of tech executives are white.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. They saw the opportunity to develop products that assist in the intellectual development of a child from a very early age. According to the EEOC, 83 percent of tech executives are white.