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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. She made the right decisions not joining back then because that founder empathy is the “++” that makes a difference in this business. So why now? So What Does All This Mean?

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Empowering millennials in Peru to take action volunteering

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Rosario Diaz Garavito, the founder of The Millennials Movement , didn’t look to be labeled as an entrepreneur and a leader in her community when she began her small social media movement promoting youth volunteerism in 2013. Rosario also advises that young leaders need to get creative and build sustainable processes.

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Superside nabs $30M to connect and manage freelance creatives working with in-house marketing and design teams

TechCrunch

And today, a startup that’s helping companies connect with a wider range of designers and other creatives to meet that demand is announcing a round of funding to fuel its business growth. “We want to go from 350 to 1,000 creatives,” he said, “and then maybe 10,000, or 100,000.” Superside provides them.

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Creating agents of change in El Salvador with sustainable wearable art

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

María, who was born and raised in El Salvador, is the founder of Masshii. I gained a solid business background to support my creative side. I moved back to El Salvador and started working toward my own dream at the end of 2015 with Masshii and started inspiring others to do the same. a Suriano, 2018 YLAI Fellow. “It

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Why there are so few women in tech (and what you can do about it!)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Natalie Kaminski, an EO New York member and co-founder and CEO of JetRockets. Fast forward two-plus decades, and I’m now the CEO and co-founder of JetRockets, where we develop high-performing web and mobile app solutions that help our clients transform their businesses and grow. Brain power. Career progression.

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Five Lessons Learned from the Ample Hills $8 Million Raise

This is going to be BIG.

When Ample Hills first raised $4 million in 2015, people asked if it was a seed round. Investing in you isn't always their immediate priority, and they're used to dealing with people they know a lot better than the typical VC knows a founder when they pull the trigger. Here's what I think everyone involved learned in this process.

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Blogging for the Hell of It, Not Blogging to Stay Relevant

Both Sides of the Table

For me it was always a creative outlet. If I write about startups where I’m concerned about bullying or inappropriate use of customer data I am all too aware that each have investors, each have founders and each have friends. I used to love blogging. In December we announced our newest fund – Upfront V – had closed.