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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

As with any movement, there comes a day when grand visions need to either remain that, or be executed on so that they may evolve to the next stage of development and maturation. What challenges and success the initiative booked in the first six months, and how COVID-19 impacted the project. Challenges.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. At the time I wasn’t 100% sure but he made compelling arguments about how other markets have developed as they matured so I took note. He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend ?

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Great Question gets $2.5M seed round to make customer research easier

TechCrunch

Great Question’s seed round came from investors including Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures. Before founding Great Question, PJ Murray and Ned Dwyer sold their last startup , web developer marketplace Elto, to GoDaddy in 2015. We would talk to customers, but it wasn’t structured or consistent.”.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially I call it, “Remind me why I love you again?” When you pitched me I really did love you. A few weeks have slipped by.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”. That makes Oceankind one of the biggest non-governmental funders of ocean science in the world.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. They saw the opportunity to develop products that assist in the intellectual development of a child from a very early age. According to the EEOC, 83 percent of tech executives are white.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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