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Cultivating a Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecosystem Building Programs

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Cultivating a culture and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a core principle for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Ongoing third-party consultation.

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Mosaic raises $18.5M Series A from GC to rebuild the CFO software stack

TechCrunch

While the CEO sets strategy, messages, and builds culture, the CFO needs to know everything that it is going on in an organization. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. CFOs are the supposed omniscient owners of a company. Where is revenue coming from, and when will it arrive?

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Extra Crunch roundup: StockX EC-1, Early Stage recaps, unpacking Alkami’s IPO, more

TechCrunch

Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Part 2: Authentication and StockX’s global arms race against fraudsters. Part 3: Where StockX fits in the business of sneakers. The StockX EC-1.

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

Other considerations include market size, incumbent strength, founder fit with an enterprise-like sales cycle, and ability to create significantly better-electrified products faster than the incumbents can modify their existing lines and supply chains. Carbon Accounting Software The biggest category is carbon accounting software.

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The Social Media Triangle

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By reducing the network effect lock in of the incumbents. For more thoughts on that I have an entire book which you can find at World After Capital. (*) It turns out that you can achieve all three if you start with quality but only if you build a culture of quality. In other words, require Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc.

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HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale

Y Combinator

14:20 – At what point did they shift entirely away from consulting? What we didn’t want to fall into was the trap of building something that was a consulting company. Craig Cannon [14:42] – At what point did it feel like you really shifted to a startup from a consulting company? Maybe it was a cultural thing.