TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Now, as competition heats up among investors to work with the most promising startups earlier, and the field of the founders hoping to build and launch companies gets wider and wider, the firm is taking a new approach. “We think that great founders come from everywhere [and] we want to give these opportunities to founders everywhere.”

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Accelerators, incubators, entrepreneurship training programs and workshops, co-working spaces, maker spaces, universities, pitch events and competitions, networking events and meetups, venture capital firms, angel investors, government and other civic programs, and mentors. What kind of information should you look for? Don’t go it alone.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Current Board service includes: First Fidelity Bank, REES Architects, Oklahoma City University, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, United Way of Central Oklahoma, the Civic Center Foundation, the Oklahoma School of Science and Math Foundation, i2e (Innovation to Enterprise) and the Arts Council of Oklahoma City. How can a decade have flown by!

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.”

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. You’re involved in other aspects of the firm’s activities: due diligence, portfolio acceleration, board service, etc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. I’m not saying anything new, but Israel is known as the startup nation for a reason. There is an incredible, thriving entrepreneurship culture that breeds fascinating companies weekly.

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