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

TechCrunch

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Sesie Bonsi.

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Makerbot: The First "Real" Brooklyn Exit

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That''s not really positive or sustainable for building a startup ecosystem. Check out this post from NYC Resistor''s blog four years ago about the launch of the very first Makerbot. Venture Capital & Technology' fuckyeahbrooklyn.

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Do you really know how to learn?

This is going to be BIG.

As I finished up my weekly newsletter of NYC's tech events and classes , I thought a lot about some recent conversations I've had with some new entrants into the startup ecosystem--enthusiastic young professionals whose stated goals centered around learning. The abilty to be direct and honest.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

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I can't put up my track record on my blog, which I'd happily do--whether I have any exits (even though it is theoretically public what I've worked on and who might have sold to a company that rhymes with hype) and how the other companies are doing. I can't tell you anything about it thanks to the SEC. scratches bald head].

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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There was what seemed like an endless stream of bombshell announcements for four months: Alphabet’s Waymo unit filed a lawsuit against Uber claiming that a former Waymo employee, Anthony Levandowski, stole secrets related to autonomous vehicle technology. Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own s. Also, it pisses me off.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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Next Level Entrepreneurship: Investing in a New Generation of Startups

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. In fact, the work he does outside of his original business helped him earn the 2019 EO Global Citizen of the Year.