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What do your VCs care about and does it matter?

This is going to be BIG.

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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3 Lessons Learned from Living in Adventure Mode

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Like most entrepreneurs, I started as an underdog, and it remained a key part of company culture as we grew. We had no venture capital and weren’t part of a global agency network. We were resilient, creative, driven—and each time we were snubbed, it made us more determined to win the account. Be an Underdog.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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Kukua, creators of “Super Sema,” raises $6 million, led by Alchimia and Tencent

TechCrunch

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. million seed from Africa-focused venture capital firm EchoVC and other investors that year. The company raised $2.5

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“If I never again have to read a bunch of entitled tech bros mansplaining on twitter about their way of working is the only way, I will die a happy man.” Canadian Investor Chris Neumann on Venture Vibes, Who Helped Him Along the Way, and the Qualities of a Founder Who Could Fail But He’d Back Again

Hunter Walk

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? CN: Thanks so much – that means a lot coming from you.

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Why we rebuilt our equity plan for flexibility (and how you can, too)

TechCrunch

We hadn’t done this before, and we weren’t following the standard playbook, so it took time, research and creativity. If you lead with the business benefits that the changes could have on recruiting, culture and morale, the opportunity for pushback will be limited. Double down on employee and candidate education.

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Capital crunch shines a light on the importance of founders’ mental health, investors say

TechCrunch

For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. So in a way, foreign capital can act as a stressor to African founders.

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