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Brazil’s Monkey nabs $6M Series A for financial marketplace

TechCrunch

Monkey has developed what it describes as Supply Chain Finance (SCF) programs for small and medium enterprises. We actually think that what they’re doing is fundamentally different to the way that Supply Chain Finance has been done anywhere around the globe,” Whittle said. So what does that mean exactly?

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

StartupNation

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e. The economists who conducted the study analyzed administrative government data on the founders of all U.S. hyper-growth, acquisition, or IPO).

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

StartupNation

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e. The economists who conducted the study analyzed administrative government data on the founders of all U.S. hyper-growth, acquisition, or IPO).

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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

David Teten VC

Independent sponsors (groups seeking to acquire a company which do not have the equity financing needed in advance) earn nothing upfront, but earn 20% of the deals they facilitate. Similarly, certain Revenue-Based Finance investors (e.g., Methods in between are a tradeoff of compensation and carry.” Calm Company. “We’re

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