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UK report spotlights the huge investment gap facing diverse founders

TechCrunch

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. female entrepreneurs face in accessing VC funding versus male counterparts.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

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The Duolingo EC-1

TechCrunch

Education may well be the most important activity we conduct as a society — and it may also be the hardest space to build a startup in. Engagement and education feel aggressively at odds, which limits the way that startups can scale and succeed. It’s a language-learning app that has caught fire.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

On top of that, most of a school's major donors are likely to be entrepreneurs in some way. They don't have great marketing channels to those clubs and the faculty don't advocate for participation as part of your education. Entrepreneurship education needs hard skills training. Be a community center.

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Should you use TikTok for your business?

Startup Blogpost

From having visual and shareable content to making the jump to YouTube Shorts, here are 10 answers to the question, “Should you use TikTok for your business? As a tech entrepreneur, I’ve had the most success with TikTok by sharing technology-related content that connects with my target audience. Sound drives up brand recall.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: The Kindbody TC-1, Glossier’s mistakes, calculating startup runway

TechCrunch

With a focus on education that addresses the fragmentation associated with infertility care, Kindbody is growing at a remarkable pace, but it’s also helping many patients feel seen and heard for the first time. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. What Glossier got wrong.

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THE TECHCELERATOR@STATE COLLEGE ANNOUNCES THREE WINNERS!   

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

The team is developing a strategically engineered nutrition program that uses behavior modification techniques to encourage healthy lifestyle choices. The People’s Choice Winner/$1,000 was awarded to Akhil Mammen with AlphaSlate who is developing an education platform that creates a personalized learning itinerary for K-12 students.

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