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Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C

TechCrunch

An emergency room doctor initially told him that there was no chance of survival, but then another doctor called one of his peers in the United States, and they came up with an alternative treatment plan that worked. It says it is the largest community of healthcare professionals in Southeast Asia, with more than 350,000 doctors on board.

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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community. Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds?

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How Valence Aims to Provide Better Access and Funding for Black Founders & Executives

Both Sides of the Table

As Kobie says, he didn’t have a “magical database” of great Black talent, so he set out to build a solution not just for himself, but also for the community. “I gotta say it was a good day.” I’m so fricking pumped today. Really, truly. Yeah, Valence announced > $5 million in funding led by GGV and Upfront. But let’s be clear. WE WILL WIN.

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What Plinko Can Tell Us About Where to Post

This is going to be BIG.

Actually, I think the best analogy for a social media strategy looks something more like this: If you’ve never seen The Price is Right’s Plinko game, it’s highly entertaining. A lot of people ask me what I think of posting to Twitter these days… (I’ll start calling it X as soon as I learn to stop saying Battery Tunnel and Triborough Bridge).

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. Just not the kind you would initially read about on TechCrunch. That may soon change.

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Incredibuild gets $140M to speed up games and other software development with distributed processing tech

TechCrunch

The company found early traction with games companies, whose heavy use of media required lots of code processing; longer-term, other companies that deal with graphics, AR, VR, artificial intelligence and other work-intensive loads came to the company as well. 6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities.

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The Power of People: How We Recast Our Expertise into Valuable Incentives

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. And I wanted it to be great – something cool that celebrates entrepreneurship and provides a unique perspective not only to the EO members, but to the community, as well.