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500 Founders: Sophie Silver, Terry Wen, Ankita Dhakar & Aleks Dahlberg

NZ Entrepreneur

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. “ Terry Wen – Founder. ” “We don’t choose to go down the path of being a founder because it’s easy, safe or comfortable. Sophie Silver – cofounder.

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Pacific Kids’ Learning

NZ Entrepreneur

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. Pacific Kids Learning is an innovative EdTech and Edutainment company that produces culturally-relevant content, primarily, for Pacific kids.

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Elevate Your Events: 7 Insider Secrets from Industry Pros  

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Amanda Ma, CEO and founder of Innovate Marketing Group , and host of the Event Up podcast where she interviews industry experts to share their wisdom, tips, and experiences on the latest in events industry news, experiential marketing, corporate culture, and diversity and inclusion.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. And it changed the culture. It was nobody’s fault.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

When I hear the realism that comes from founders with setback it elicits an understanding of what it takes to be successful at a startup that frankly can’t exist unless you’ve walked in those shoes before. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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Tips For An Effective Co-Founder Relationship

Onevest

By Tim Houghten What really makes for an effective, and lasting co-founder relationship? Is the magical pixie dust that gives co-founder relationships wings really all about eHarmony style data matching? For example; having three technical co-founders can eat up a lot of margin, and still leave a gaping hole to be filled.

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Fortune Magazine List of Best Companies to Work For (Episode 210)

StartupNation

Tune in to the Business Beat to find out which businesses made the list of Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. I’m Jeff Sloan, founder, and CEO of StartupNation.com, and that’s today’s Business Beat on the Great Voice of the Great Lakes, WJR.

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