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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). At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. The economists who conducted the study analyzed administrative government data on the founders of all U.S.

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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). At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. The economists who conducted the study analyzed administrative government data on the founders of all U.S.

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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.