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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a new year – 2016. Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent

TechCrunch

However , expensive value-added services like credit cards do not necessarily address the needs of underbanked people. What we wanted to address was a central platform that could basically provide solutions to e-commerce, point of sale, e-billing and peer to peer payment.”. Ozow is one such player.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Asana offers its premium service free for six months for students to keep track of their work. 1) Your school. 1) Your school. First of all, it’s important to be in touch with what’s going on locally.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

TechCrunch

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. out of its 33.6

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EO Member Jenny Vance “Throws Caution to the Wind”

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I talk ideas out with peers, gather feedback and then methodically move forward. After mulling it over, I found four areas in business development that can benefit from a quick start: Idea development: Waiting for product or service perfection wastes valuable time and money. Like many entrepreneurs, I tend to be a perfectionist.

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How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets

TechCrunch

After this is done , Pariti benchmarks each company against its peers. According to Startup Genome , Beijing, London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Tel Aviv are some of the world’s best startup ecosystems. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year.

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