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18 Inspirational Career Reinvention Journeys from Successful Entrepreneurs

StartupNation

We dug into the research and saw clearly how many professionals search daily for support with career coaching, positioning, resumes, interviews, LinkedIn presence, and job search strategy. From 2000 to 2004, I held jobs that allowed me to travel the country. But more than numbers, we saw a gap in quality. I have to get curious.”

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments

TechCrunch

Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. firms have launched an inaugural Revenue-Based Finance fund. In VC, 100x investment opportunities only come along once every few years.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. Well, I joined Google, I guess now fairly early, but it was 2004. Do we have the wrong strategy? It was fun.

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Joseph Lee, CEO of Kairous Capital, Shares His Cross-Border Investment Philosophy for the Asia Pacific Region

AsiaTechDaily

Register Joseph Lee has a strong track record in the finance industry throughout his career to date. With that, Joseph Lee shared enthusiastically about Kairous Capital and its cross-border business strategy: Can you tell us about your background and how you started your entrepreneurial journey?

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Newsletter: Elon Musk’s genius + Surgical robots

OurCrowd

In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. In 2004, Musk was way ahead of the curve in foreseeing the transformation of energy from fossil fuels to renewables. It’s a great hiring strategy and retention tactic.”. Finance Associate, Payment for Klook (Malyasia).