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Educate, Empower, Support: EO Women Entrepreneurs Are Leading the Way

Entrepreneurs' Organization

WEDO Canada’s mission is to educate, empower and support future women entrepreneurs by granting $1 million in scholarships to deserving female post-secondary students across Canada,” Milena said. “We Our goal is to help increase the number of entrepreneurial startups led by women and increase the number of women in early-stage investing.”

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. After a recent discussion I had with Steve Blank it made me remember that I had left off one of the most critical factors – a culture of failure. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London.

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The Heartbeat of Korean Gaming: Pangyo Techno Valley’s Evolution into a Cultural Epicenter

AsiaTechDaily

Register The Pangyo Techno Valley, Korea’s representative game valley, is growing into a content & culture complex, hoping to become a ‘pump-priming’ for the Korean gaming industry. Besides, a multitude of small to medium-sized companies and startups specializing in gaming also call it home.

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VC Corner: Marlon Nichols, Cross Culture VC

Startup Grind

He has worked with several startups, invested in companies like Mayvenn, Gimlet Media, Blavity, Airspace Technologies, Codeverse, and many others Pitch your startup for a chance to meet with Cross Culture VC Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission? Thus, we invested in Fair and our thesis has proven correct to this point.

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New Culture lands $25 million in seed funding to commercialize its cheesy vegan mozzarella

TechCrunch

That massive gap hasn’t stopped a syndicate of investors from plowing $25 million in seed funding into New Culture , a company that sells “cow cheese, without the cow.” Meanwhile, New Culture says through a precision fermentation process, it is producing large amounts of casein protein.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Startups are team sports because you’re all working on the same shared objective of the company. That’s what we’re trying to do at Upfront. We took it anyways.

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Make accessibility part of your startup’s products and culture from day one

TechCrunch

A lot of work remains in raising awareness and educating people about why we need to make these changes and how to go about it. Being proactive about your hires and making sure they will contribute to a culture of accessibility and inclusion will save you major headaches. The startup advantage. You have the why.

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