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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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Next Level Entrepreneurship: Investing in a New Generation of Startups

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. In fact, the work he does outside of his original business helped him earn the 2019 EO Global Citizen of the Year.

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Singapore’s Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India Raise $541M, Prioritizes Women-Led Startups

AsiaTechDaily

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) was founded in 2010 to drive innovation and support scalable businesses in the Southeast Asian and Indian regions. This track record led most of our investors from VVSEAI Fund IV to return as investors in VVSEAI Fund V and increase their allocation,” he said.

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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

The dream of virtually every entrepreneur, regardless of their innovation or industry, is to land a successful investment for their venture. Over the past 15 years, I have invested in more than 35 companies with diverse and underserved founders. I’ve created 15 funds in the last year alone. .

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

The real innovation was a business one, with Klarna’s young and non-technical founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsso, taking an old idea and reconfiguring it for the burgeoning e-commerce industry. However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it. Von Tobel joined the management team of Northwestern Mutual as the company’s first chief digital officer.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

Prime minister Pedro Sanchez took a turn on Web Summit’s stage in December to announce the introduction of the forthcoming Startup Act — and to trumpet a new role, a high commissioner, tasked with bringing off a nationwide entrepreneurial economic transformation by working with all the relevant government ministries.

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