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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

Mimi Aboubaker is an entrepreneur and writer. In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. Mimi Aboubaker.

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

Jason Malki

The Colorpik Smart Pen is a popular tool for artists, designers, and educators. The pen could also be used to create digital art, as the scanned colors can be easily transferred to digital projects. Another potential application for the Colorpik Pen is in the field of education. It’s on a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign now.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

In addition, there are many other groups will give you cash, training, and community with few or no strings attached: Ashoka is a foundation that engages in scouring for and choosing the leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, who it refers to as Ashoka Fellows. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

In addition, there are many other groups will give you cash, training, and community with few or no strings attached: Ashoka is a foundation that engages in scouring for and choosing the leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, who it refers to as Ashoka Fellows. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. billion and $10.65

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech at the time, and the exit created a pool of new entrepreneurs and angel investors.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.