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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

This is going to be BIG.

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. Welcome to the future.

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

Both Sides of the Table

They got us to fill out the details of where we worked in the past and the network effect compels us to keep it updated. So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them.

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Revolutionizing the Aviation Supply Chain: An Interview with Tia (Tulika) Dayal Considine, Founder…

Jason Malki

She has worked with companies from all sectors, including Transportation, Telecom, and Manufacturing companies to guide their Supply Chain and Inventory strategies. If you had to share, words of wisdom, with a Founder whos about to start their own startup, what would theybe? Starting a startup is a thrilling but challenging journey.

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What Should You Make of the Web Summit Controversy? A View Behind the Scenes

Both Sides of the Table

The founder of the event, Paddy Cosgrave, smartly responded to the critics in a post I just read this morning. After all, entry price registration question aside, they are all expensive once you factor in airfare, hotels, ground transportation, booths (if you have one), meals and – especially – time away from your day jobs?

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Extra Crunch roundup: Square buys Afterpay, paid search basics, career advice for devs

TechCrunch

Afterpay brings global revenues, global users and a more diverse merchant network to Square,” Alex notes. “It Developers may delight in solving complex technical problems, but the problem of a career path is one many don’t think much about, Juniper Networks CTO Raj Yavatkar writes in a guest column. That seems like a lot.

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Place, Policy, & Partnership Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

That’s led to significant demographic and geographic disparities in funding and missed opportunities to back great founders and companies?—?opportunities The soundbite: “ Underfunded founders don’t need advice; they need capital.”?—?Samara This is an extraordinary place, and you shouldn’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”