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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. We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. 1) Your school. 1) Your school. school of engineering).

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Ashna Mahepal to Young Entrepreneurs: Identify Your Source of Empowerment

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

As an independent woman with a go-getter attitude, she shared insights with us into her life as an entrepreneur and what it was like getting YHS off the ground, as well as her advice for other young entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment using robotics and innovation.

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Working with Startups what do Law Firms and Attorneys contribute?

Gust

While it sounds tautological, the most important thing a law firm brings to the startup table is… a knowledge of the law surrounding everything having to do with founding, financing and operating a startup! After all, they are *lawyers* not peers in your industry. But while obvious, that doesn’t make it any less important.

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How to Know When to Sell vs. When to Market to Customers

Both Sides of the Table

What does it mean for the purchasing process to be aligned? Well think of it this way – you have your sales process. You know exactly when you want to sell to this customer and presumably it’s this quarter! And with scarce resources it’s your job to decide which door this lead must go through – sales or marketing.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

Both firms were able to establish themselves as clear market leaders in early-stage finance even though they were effectively startups 10 years ago in their own right because they did things a different way. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – A’s, B’s & C’s

Both Sides of the Table

The next few posts are going to talk about scaling your sales operations as you move out of the evangelical phase. In the early days of selling it can sometimes be an advantage to not have rigid pricing schedules, complex service level agreements (SLAs), hard-and-fast rate limits, etc. Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit.

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What No One Ever Tells You About Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs' Organization

If you can associate with people who challenge you to think positively, dream bigger and offer advice, your path to success becomes easier. If anyone has given you tips about starting your own business, they’re sure to have missed something, too. Here’s what I’ve learned from 19 years of experience: 1.