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UK report spotlights the huge investment gap facing diverse founders

TechCrunch

between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period. The finding of baked-in bias holds true across all funding stages, per the findings. The report , by the not-for-profit community interest company Extend Ventures , looked at how VC has been invested in the U.K.

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Reimagining B2B Commerce with Faire

Y Combinator

In contrast, the number of independent bookstores in the US increased 49% from 1,600 stores in 2009 to 2,500 stores in 2018 6. 3) De-densification: Data from the Brookings Institution suggest that migration in the US had already been shifting to the suburbs before COVID. million in 2012 to 1.55

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Unleashing Infinite Hues: An Interview with Steve Wang, the Visionary CEO of Colorpik Inc.

Jason Malki

The pen could also be used to create digital art, as the scanned colors can be easily transferred to digital projects. The pen could be used to teach children about color theory and color mixing. It could also be used to create interactive educational materials. Remember, success is not an overnight phenomenon.

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History of The MP3

Unvalidated Learnings

While the former owns an older motorcycle which he is usually able to diagnose and repair himself through the use of rational problem-solving skills, the latter simply hopes for the best for his bike and focuses on being “In the moment”, and not on rational analysis. As Witt puts it: “The studio engineers hated the mp3.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S.

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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

TechCrunch

FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. and Sana Kliniken, a teaching hospital network in Germany.

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The Ideal Pitch Deck is a Story, a Science, and an Art

StartupNation

Companies like Airbnb, Intercom and Buffer have released the pitch decks they used to raise their first rounds of funding, and if you look at their structure, you can essentially find the same set of slides. We’re going to use that to distill the ideal set of slides for a pitch deck (and combine it with some storytelling ).