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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

Don’t get me wrong--the mental and emotional well-being of startup employees is a serious issue. The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. Also, it pisses me off.

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Techstars Launches Accelerator Program in Japan with Mitsui Fudosan and JETRO

AsiaTechDaily

Collaborating with JETRO, Mitsui Fudosan is actively involved in initiatives with the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to attract global startup accelerators and venture capital firms to Japan.

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East Ventures and SV Investment Inject $100m Fund to Supercharge Tech Startups in Southeast Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Register Indonesia-based venture capital firm East Ventures and Seoul-based venture capital firm SV Investment have joined forces to establish a new fund targeted at $100 million. Roderick Purwana, Managing Partner of East Ventures, expressed his satisfaction with the SV Investment partnership. billion.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. Allied Venture Partners.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

They include Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, who said last year he was moving his venture capital firm , 8VC, from Silicon Valley to the city, and Geoff Lewis , founder and managing partner of Bedrock Capital. All that was needed was more capital to support it.”. .”