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Strengthening financial education in Argentina with honesty and integrity

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2018 YLAI Fellow Gastón is the founder of eaInversores , an online platform based in Córdoba, Argentina, that provides low-cost investment assistance and financial literacy education. Wanting to also focus on building opportunities in his own community, Gastón pursued social entrepreneurship and launched eaInversores.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Grockit – Provides online adaptive test prep services and community.

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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community. At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. CrunchBase (free).

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How Founders Can Win Media Coverage for Zero Cost

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Since 2010, I’ve worked as a media relations troubleshooter for some of the world’s leading organizations (NHS, HERE Technologies, Virgin). If you get lots of media coverage positioning you as edtech when you are fintech, and education is one of the smaller sectors you serve, you’ve got a problem. Do you have a story?

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How I Promise You One of the Most Meaningful Days of Your Life

Both Sides of the Table

Defy Ventures is a program that aims to educate people in prison to become better humans upon graduation. Defy Ventures runs business plan competitions and has people like us who attend and give business advice and feedback. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars.

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 Child Care & Coworking part 2

GCUC

I had my first child in 2010 and quickly went back to my NYC job, commuting from the NJ suburbs and leaving my new baby girl home with a nanny. Was there a market for something like Work and Play in my community? I found a community of freelancers, writers, other moms and dads who were excited by my new idea. Location: NJ, USA.