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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

Hunter Walk

For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. One component of a good Board is a high value add Independent Board Member, which in my experience, often doesn’t get added early enough (for a variety of reasons). I knew I wanted to help build it from the ground up.

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Bringing startup expertise to the boardroom

NZ Entrepreneur

That was fabulous,” says King, who has 26 years’ experience in the complex health, science and technology sectors. The immersive three-and-a-half-day programme is based around three key themes – board leadership, cultural intelligence and climate awareness. Listen to Board Matters Season 3, Episode 2 to hear more from Maria King.

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The Veteran Fund Announces Oversubscribed Fund and $100K Competition Winner

American Entrepreneurship

Miliary veterans possess attributes, experience, and skills that can be well-applied to entrepreneurship through leadership and knowledge of technology. The Veteran Fund was created to harness this potential, empowering veteran entrepreneurs to drive advancements in technology while securing America’s future.”

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Selling your business? Find the emotional buyer

Berkonomics

You may represent the only obvious way to protect against obsolescence from a buyer’s declining marketplace, or failure to compete against others with better, newer technologies. The buyer may be a public company attempting to defend decreasing market share and being overly punished by Wall Street.

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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

The technology-driven financing decisions benefit women and minorities who have experienced discrimination in the past when borrowing. Parafins relationship with client DoorDash showcases how Parafins technology works. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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The White Collar Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 But if a founder wanted a list of jobs to automate, the BLS’ white collar jobs boards is a wonderful place to start. Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 Sales Managers 0.4

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LUUM’s Eyelash Extension Innovation Garners $30M Series A Round

American Entrepreneurship

New CEO named to lead transformative technology in the beauty industry. AI continues to open up new frontiers as innovators apply the fast-emerging technology in ways that gain investor support. Harding remains a board member and an integral executive team member. Jo is perfect for LUUM’s next phase of growth.