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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.

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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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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 In fact, my personal fund raising strategy is to attend the first meeting by myself. A few weeks have slipped by.

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

TechCrunch

The platform has been used to interview customers about product ideas and strategy, find product-market fit, conduct usability studies on UX designs and see how well marketing landing pages perform. Great Question’s seed round came from investors including Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures.

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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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2021 Marketing Trends to Grow Your Business

StartupNation

From maintaining the back-of-the-house books to providing stellar customer service to continually providing excellent products and services, there are a lot of different hats that you need to wear. Create and leverage a review strategy. Expand your reach. Being a small business owner is no small feat. Customer reviews. That’s right.

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My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey

TechCrunch

I wanted to work with great investors, too, and fortunately I had the ability either to work with Accel-funded companies, start my own or leverage other investor relationships I’d developed. I also knew Peter Fenton, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful investors and a leading funder of the company. All rights reserved.

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