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EmpowHER Your Mindset: How Women Entrepreneurs Can Overcome Negative Thoughts To Stay Motivated

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Miranda Naiman, a 7-year EO Tanzania member and an unstoppable force for good, is the founder of Empower , a disruptive consulting firm that passionately provides talent, advisory and insight services to clients across the African continent. board director to multiple organisations, coach, mentor and volunteer can weigh us down.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

And having too much money certainly raises board expectations that you will do big things quickly. No board is going to give you $25 million up front and then expect your year-one staff expenditures to be $2 million. In fact, not going fat at this stage can also cause problems.

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Accel, BoxGroup, Cowboy Ventures, Pear VC and Yahoo to judge Startup Battlefield at Disrupt

TechCrunch

We’re less than a month away from TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco! Hershenson also serves on the board of trustees of Harvey Mudd College and on the Advisory Council of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He also serves on the board of Friends of Hudson River Park.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. The ones above are the ones I’ve prioritized this year (other than Disrupt – I never seem to get invited to that one). If an accelerator is writing you they’re also writing 25 other VCs. Web Summit.

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You Don't Need a Co-Founder

This is going to be BIG.

A lot of accelerators treat solo founders the same way--making it an implied requirement to participate. Well, of course there are, but that doesn't mean the people doing them also need a board seat and 40% of the common equity to do it. The same holds true for VC funds.

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How to Accelerate Valuation Growth in Services Businesses

Paul G. Silva

Other companies buy into an enterprise platform just to learn they are costly, take years to generate results, and disrupt the core business. This approach lets you get wins on the board quickly, building momentum to effect larger and larger culture change to facilitate ever greater innovation & impact.

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General Atlantic Invests in Liftoff to Back AI-Powered Growth for Mobile Businesses

American Entrepreneurship

Since merging with Vungle in 2021 under Blackstones leadership, Liftoff has accelerated its growth trajectory by combining complementary technologies and expanding its product portfolio.