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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

startups raked last year. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. Please tell us what your company does.

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How to Launch Your Startup Without Eating Ramen

Entrepreneur's Handbook

5 myths to avoid on the 1st leg of your entrepreneurship journey What you don’t have to eat to pursue your passion (Image from WikiMedia Commons) There is a path to entrepreneurship promoted in Hollywood and there is a path for the rest of us. in the town of Woodstock, New York, where my hippy parents owned a used Celtic bookstore.

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Both of us worked at investment banks. One of us had startup experience. Only one of us got into a tier 1 VC.

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Getting into VC is very very difficult. This story is a case of 2 of the exact same profile of people, one with and one without operating experience getting into VC both who had worked in investment banking but one of which got an offer from a top tier VC and the other didnt.

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Founders should consider pre-Seed to Series A fundraising as full-time job – Phylicia Koh, VP, Play Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Phylicia Koh, vice president at early-stage gaming venture capital firm Play Ventures , said effective fundraising is not only essential for securing necessary capital but also for demonstrating the commitment and resilience of the founding team. This can ultimately factor into the decision-making process of potential investors, she added.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

A year or two before launching Actuator, someone on staff floated the idea of my writing a weekly robotics newsletter. Not everything that crosses over the transom makes it on our site. That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. I balked at the suggestion. This week, not so much.