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Kumospace raises new cash to replace physical offices with virtual ones

TechCrunch

Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling. Supporting evidence is mixed. He’s biased, of course — Kumospace sells a video chat platform.

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How VC Fundraising Favors White Men

This is going to be BIG.

The responses I got came at a time when I've been having a lot of conversations with female founders as well about their fundraising experiences. At this moment, I'm in the process of backing three companies that have at least one female founder and I just finished a round for a black female founder in December. Ducks head.]

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Edition #12: Ashley Proctor

GCUC

Community of Cultivators is a new blog series to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. She is the Producer of our GCUC Canada event as well as the Founder of COHIP and Creative Blueprint. Company and title: Founder, Creative Blueprint & COHIP and Executive Producer, GCUC Canada. And get used to hearing no.

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Meme Mapping: Learn to Run Better Creative Tests by Reverse-Engineering Hollywood

Reforge

Then dive into how Hollywood uses memes to help people find the right movie to watch, to introduce you to the concept of memetics. Finally we’ll run through a step-by-step example of how to use Meme Mapping to get a more consistent return on investment from experimentation.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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Edition #4: Jeff Joerling

GCUC

Community of Cultivators is a new blog series to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. We also visited with Jeff Jeorling, Founder of Solve and Formative. Company and title: Formative, Founder. Since “at a coworking space” seems a little on the nose, for me, it’s on the mountain. On to Jeff….

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). (and and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to.