TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Historically, many Black students (more so Black male students), are influenced by sports as a vehicle to higher education and not necessarily the institutions recognized for technological prowess. Despite having great grades and graduating with honors, I was completely unaware of how valuable an Ivy League education could be.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Based in Detroit, Autobooks offers a number of wellness benefits, plus great financial and educational benefits. DeepHow is using this technology to bridge the skilled labor gap in the manufacturing, construction and service industries. They are committed to diversity and invest in the education of their employees. Pocketnest.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. Connecting consumers with products they need through channels they already know and trust is both a massive revenue opportunity and a social good, providing financial resilience to families at a time when they need it most.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally. If you bet your VC fund on opportunities like that, you’re relying on luck. There are many 3x-20x return opportunities, and if you’re incredibly lucky (or Chris Sacca) you might get one 100x in your career. . According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

According to the Kauffman Foundation , a study of “549 company founders of successful businesses in high-growth industries, including aerospace, defense, computing, electronics and healthcare” showed that “more than 90% of the entrepreneurs came from middle-class or upper-lower-class backgrounds and were well-educated: 95.1% in 2019.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

They believed in the team, vision, mission and the opportunity of building streamlined cross-border commerce solutions for African consumers. The market opportunity was there; e-commerce is less than 10 years old in Africa, with a 3% penetration rate and a 27% personal consumption rate in Africa, the second-highest after Asia.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 10, 2020

Held annually in Vienna, Austria, the event runs for two weeks in August and consists of a range of different educational programs. The panel discussed both the risks and opportunities of both action and inaction on this agenda and took questions from the public on both topics from the Alpbach Forum app. .

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally. If you bet your VC fund on opportunities like that, you’re relying on luck. There are many 3x-20x return opportunities, and if you’re incredibly lucky (or Chris Sacca) you might get one 100x in your career. . According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

For our latest Extra Crunch market map, we sized up the general market opportunity before creating a roster of major players and reaching out to investors to see where they’re placing bets. The influence of a founder on their company’s culture cannot be overstated. The battle for voice recognition inside vehicles is heating up.

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Derek Sivers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Vietnam has long been considered the cultural and artistic heart of Asia, and the Vietnamese are the “Italians of Asia”. This can be seen in shops, where the air-conditioning is turned off until a customer walks in, or in the recycling culture where even used plastic bags have value. A new “me-first” culture is rising.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Developed societies are depopulating all over the world, across cultures – the total human population may already be shrinking. Markets cause entrepreneurs to seek out high prices as a signal of opportunity to create new wealth by driving those prices down. Natural resource utilization has sharp limits, both real and political.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As it turns out, the “move fast in break things” culture was itself pretty broken—full of discrimination and harassment. but instead Airbnb was seen as an active proponent of expanded affordable housing construction. The headlines in the tech and startup world have not been good over the last couple of years.

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