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Building a Groundbreaking Platform for Mental Health Support With Passion and Purpose

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A last-minute trip to drop my wife off at her internship in October 2013 led to the brightest idea I’ve had so far as an entreprener. A last-minute trip to drop my wife off at her internship in October 2013 led to the brightest idea I’ve had so far as an entreprener. I heard things take time. Here’s how it went.

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Why Seed Funds Have Scaled

Haystack

Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013. As a result, the venture industry has exploded — either to meet that opportunity, or because of low interest rates, or both. 2/ Financial Consideration s – When investment firms grow, so do fees.

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Fund Investing Versus Fund Management

Haystack

That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. Over the years, that check size grew slowly to $50K, then a few $100Ks, and I followed-on into a few at the $250K level, with two outsized pile-ins at $400K and $600K total exposure, respectively. Fund investing is easy — fund management is not.

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Bonusly, a startup aiming to help employees get recognized for quality work, raises $18.8M

TechCrunch

Another vendor in the space is Bonusly , which was launched in 2013 by co-founder and CEO Raphael Crawford-Marks. million in Series B funding led by Ankona Capital with participation from Access Venture Partners, Next Frontier Capital, Operator Partners and FirstMark Capital — bringing its total raised to $32.4

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The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

This is going to be BIG.

If you’ve ever run a large group of people, you know that culture change isn’t done at the podium. Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. No, I mean, she actually wants to do the job. It’s not a platform for her to promote any experiments. It’s not something she’s doing because that’s the next logical step in a political ladder.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. Women-founded companies in the U.S. startups raked last year.

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