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I'm Running for the New York Tech Meetup Board

This is going to be BIG.

I was also part of the original New York Tech Meetup board and participated on it until last year. I offered to step aside to bring a few more faces onto the board last year. That was one of the original principals of nextNY, the community group that I started in 2006—that anyone could and should run an event.

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Incyte chooses to grow in Delaware with investment in new Wilmington site

American Entrepreneurship

The structures were built in the mid-1990s for MBNA and used by the bank until its 2006 merger with Bank of America, which eventually left both sites empty. I am extremely pleased to welcome Incyte to Wilmington, a city historically known as the home of corporate innovation, creativity and development,” said Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki.

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Uganda’s Tugende closes $3.6M Series A extension to meet the demand for its asset finance products

TechCrunch

The company uses asset finance, technology and a customer support model to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises own income-generating assets. These riders get some training, medical and life insurance, safety equipment and hands-on support from their first use of the motorcycle to owning it. .

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

2006 / Surprise! But in 2006, I found my peer group by joining the Entrepreneurs Organization —and it was a game-changer. The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. Bonus lesson: Mistakes are the fertile ground of innovation! Jill Nelson joined EO in 2006. I certainly did.

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

AsiaTechDaily

I initially worked as an analyst at a stock-broking firm until 2004 before embarking on my venture capital and private equity journey, where I made my first investments in Greater China before exiting via the London Stock Exchange later between 2005 and 2006.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.

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Rachelle Suissa is Breaking Barriers, Empowering Women to Rise and Lead in the Modern World

Jason Malki

She also currently sits on the Junior Advisory Board for the Leopold Schepp Scholarship Foundation Event Planning Committee. Suissa served on the Board of the Brooklyn-Queens Chapter National Organization, both as President (2006–2013) and as Vice President (2005–2007). Prior to founding Dare to Run, Ms. In addition, Ms.