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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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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. Registered with both FINRA and SEC, Equifund is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and educating investors. The problem I was solving was so clear to me. What could go wrong?

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Investor Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett on getting to the point with a pitch deck

TechCrunch

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. Fast forward to 2016. And the CEO adds that honestly, not much changed aesthetically between that first pitch and the Series A deck. “It

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Cities are Like Startups

Revolution

One characteristic I have discovered and tracked with fascination since 2016?—?in So the oft-elusive “elevator pitch” is instead replaced with a shorthand: “we are the Uber for X.” “We Silicon X Syndrome So if cities are like startups, what “startup-ish” characteristics might they exhibit? We are the Facebook for Y.” “We

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Where and When is Creativity Cultivated?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

For those of you who haven’t yet taken up the hobby of listening to podcasts, you might be missing out on a valuable channel of education and entertainment. EOlooks forward to the new calendar year, with posts, pictures and videos citing upcoming technologies and inspiration for entrepreneurs in 2016.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Honeycomb’s $50M Series D deck

TechCrunch

What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable, whether in a heightened interest in being able to do things like breakdown by customer ID or this exploding complexity that was about to come onto the scene driven by Kubernetes, microservices and containers. “Who is this product for?”

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Practical Ways that Canadian Startups Can Go Global (Without Leaving Home)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written for EO by Manny Padda an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. But there are lots of advantages to living and doing business here: a strong labor pool, educated population and great quality of life, to name a few.

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