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The Pershing Square Foundation Launches Ovarian Cancer Challenge Grant

American Entrepreneurship

Established in 2006, The Pershing Square Foundation (PSF) supports exceptional leaders and innovative organizations tackling critical social challenges through scalable, sustainable impact. By spotlighting ovarian cancer, we’re expanding the frontier of cancer research to where it’s most urgently needed.”

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. Two reasons: One, they had no other real choice.

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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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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. Open source became a movement – a mentality. Suddenly infrastructure software was nearly free.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee.

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A Weird and Wacky Approach To Angel Investing

OnStartups

I had promised myself I would at least enjoy grad school before "officially" jumping back into a startup and so I held off on officially launching HubSpot until the day I had my graduation ceremony (June 9, 2006). No board seats or advisory roles. They require a board seat. We were off to the races! Not so fast. That takes time.

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What Is Out-Of-Home Advertising? – Types & Examples

Feedough

These generally consist of large print ads displayed on high elevated boards. Construction advertising refers to placing advertisements on a temporary boarded fence in a public place and is usually erected around a construction site. Hoarding graphics: A hoarding is defined as a temporary boarded fence in a public place.