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The Veteran Fund Announces Oversubscribed Fund and $100K Competition Winner

American Entrepreneurship

Head of Global Operations of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, and the Co-Founder & COO of the Vet-Tech Startup Accelerator. H erbert Dwyer , a United States Marine Corps Veteran, co-founded EMPEQ in 2017, leveraging his prior experience in the energy field.

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LUUM’s Eyelash Extension Innovation Garners $30M Series A Round

American Entrepreneurship

The technology-driven beauty company also announced the appointment of Jo Lawson as its new Chief Executive Officer and the transition of co-founder Nathan Harding back to the role of CTO. Harding remains a board member and an integral executive team member.

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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

Melanie (Mel) Langlotz is the founder and CEO of Geo AR Games , a game design studio that utilises augmented reality for “creating digital experiences that positively impact the world, fostering education and empowerment with simulations and serious games.” .” Geo AR Games founder and CEO, Melanie (Mel) Langlotz. I love AR.

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18 Inspirational Career Reinvention Journeys from Successful Entrepreneurs

StartupNation

Jeff Sauer , Co-Founder, MeasureU and ProfitSchool From Law to Entrepreneurial Success Like many founders, my entrepreneurial journey started as a side hustle. At the time, I was also newly pregnant and running a baby carrier brand with my co-founder. Only this time, I had business experience, too! I soaked it all in.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

TechCrunch

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. million in seed funding (5.1

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. Sam & Rahul have worked closely together on “innovate & operate” since the earliest days of MakeSpace. Seriously, this happens.