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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By the time I founded Equifund in 2016, I was deeply familiar with the landscape and felt prepared to tackle the challenge. To fellow entrepreneurs at any stage of their journey, my advice is clear: If you are committed to bootstrapping your business, be prepared for the long haul. The problem I was solving was so clear to me.

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Moving Beyond Learning Differences to Support the Next Great Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We interviewed two current Inventives, Craig and Rebecca, about their projects, mentors and what advice they would give to young entrepreneurs. Specifically, we learn things like pitch decks, focus groups, financial profit and loss statements, legal work and so much more that goes into getting a business started and off the ground.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 Wave Ventures has invested in 23 startups since 2016.

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ultimate.ai scores $20M for a supportive approach to customer service automation

TechCrunch

will hand-hold you through the process of building a super savvy customer service robot, is the pitch. ” The 2016-founded startup is hitting the nail on the head for a growing number of customers — with close to 100 signed up to its platform at this point, including the likes of Deezer, Telia, Footasylum, and Finnair.

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Leave Your White Guy Behind

This is going to be BIG.

Over the weekend, Rent the Runway held an event for its Project Entrepreneur initiative, which brought together over 100 female entrepreneurs looking to get education and advice on how to take their businesses to the next step. Yes, straight white males are getting most of the funding, but they're also most of the pitches.

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Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women & underrepresented founders?

David Teten VC

By contrast, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% The study used multivariate regression analysis to control for education levels and pitch quality to conclude that gender was a statistically significant factor. of venture capital deals. Realistic projections.

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Austin’s Will Hurley on the city’s incredible tech rise

TechCrunch

Whurley has successfully co-founded and sold two Austin-based companies: Chaotic Moon Studios to Accenture in 2015 and Honest Dollar to Goldman Sachs in 2016. But most of all, he will go out of his way to help newcomers (as well as veterans) of the Austin tech scene whenever they need help or advice or counsel,” Forrest said. “We