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Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks

TechCrunch

It now also offers customized educational content that can help grow the cybersecurity culture in your team. Some of Riot’s existing investors also put more money on the table, such as Y Combinator, Funders Club and Founders Future. The startup originally focused on fake phishing campaigns.

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Standing up for Justice

Surdna Foundation

Now in its 103rd year, the Surdna Foundation is, amazingly, still led by descendants of our founder, John Emory Andrus. Until the late 1980s, Surdna’s grantmaking centered on education (scholarships), culture (arts organizations, libraries, etc.), and basic community infrastructure (fire engines!).

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

“Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. In the midst of supporting founders in their communities during a global pandemic, what do they wish they were more versed in? It is a unique combination of skills and the right mindset.” Kim Louis.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Having to deal with the culture entrenched with the decision-makers and having to dissolve the old way of thinking in order to utilize best practices of the past and integrate these practices into forward-thinking methodologies. Making our ecosystem more easily navigable and ultimately founder-friendly. Carina Boston Pinales.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Online education. Far from it. Lots of it. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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The exit effect: 4 ways IPOs and acquisitions drive positive change across the global ecosystem

TechCrunch

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. But who’s talking about the power of exits to change the playing field for diverse founders?

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.