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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

This is going to be BIG.

She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. I don’t have enough traction.

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After Investing $100 Million Into New VC Firms, Here’s What I Look For: Traditional But Better, or Different & Excellent.

Hunter Walk

When I’m scanning a pitch deck I’m basically looking to put it into one of two buckets – Traditional or Different. Could be pinning their thesis on a category of technology or type of founder that isn’t yet understood by the investment community. of them, often as their first or second largest investor.

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How to Get a CISO to Buy Your Product

Dream It

This presents a huge opportunity for startups. However, this means that a CISO sees a LOT of pitches in their role. This is your opportunity to highlight it for them. Build credibility with peers The security community is a tight-knight one. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing.

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

TechCrunch

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,”

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

TechCrunch

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

TechCrunch

The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. What it says it does: Moni describes itself as a community bank for Africa. It provides financing to these agents using community and trust-based systems, claiming to do so in five minutes. Remedial Health.

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The Interchange: Venture’s mixed signals

TechCrunch

Then the next, I open my inbox to see pitches for nine-figure funding rounds (hello, SpotOn ) and the birth of new unicorns (looking at you, Unit ). ” More recently, Plaid co-founder William Hockey — who left the company in 2019 — purchased a community bank (Northern California National Bank or NorCal) for $50 million last year.