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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

With venture investors committing to funding Black and minority founders, alongside the growing availability of government-backed proposals, such as New Jersey allocating $10 million to a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups , can we expect to see fundamental change? These discussions then bring further biases to the surface.

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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems. There are even LP fund-of-funds who raise capital with a main marketing pitch of providing better access to direct investments. Final upfront lp survey data 2016 from Mark Suster. The full presentation can be downloaded on SlideShare or viewed below.

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Diet ID wins TechCrunch’s Detroit City Spotlight pitch-off — watch the event here

TechCrunch

TechCrunch just hosted its first pitch-off in Detroit and we’re pleased to announce Diet ID won the event. The company, based in Detroit and founded in 2016 by Dr. David Katz, gives users a clinically tested approach to dietary assessment and management. The entire pitch-off is embedded above. That video is found below.

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

TechCrunch

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. . A three-way marketplace.

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The Four Cities Every Startup Should Invest in Visiting

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. The city made major strides in 2015, and with oil and gas investors looking to profit elsewhere, more money will be flowing into the area’s startups in 2016.

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How Detroit’s Cory Tincher is Facilitating the Growth of Startups in Our Region

StartupNation

The role involved working closely with Gilbert, who owns the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a colleague to analyze and pitch what they felt were the best trades the professional basketball team could possibly make to improve their odds of winning. . Related: Detroit’s Monica Wheat Strengthens Startup Ecosystem with Equality and Inclusion.

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A university’s role in an emerging startup community and other conversations

Startup Catalyst

The last time I had visited was mid-2016 when I was getting ready to leave QUT. It still felt the same, even though I had changed so much, QUT had changed so much, and the ecosystem had changed so much. It’s not all startups! Danielle Vaz (2016) is with Deloitte Digital as a Technical Business Analyst.