TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

I hope to gain more understanding of cultural differences and how they influence an entrepreneurs’ decisions. I wish I had access to several data from different cultural settings and understand how the ecosystem differs and evolves in different countries. This can be done by creating ecosystems that support micro-enterprise businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

One of the most profound books I have ever read is Jared Diamond’s “ Collapse ” in which he talks about how and why historical cultures have collapsed and disappeared and the quick answer is that it always comes rapidly from over exploitation of natural resources. Startup Lessons'

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Few Culturally Competent Mentors/Social Capital – There is a lack of qualified, culturally competent (and affordable) business mentors that can impart invaluable insights and strategies with (emerging) business owners.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

“In a culture where growing valuations are worn like a badge of honor, founders may fear that taking a down round would render them Silicon Valley pariahs,” writes Holden Spaht, managing partner at private equity firm Thoma Bravo. . ” How to protect your IP during fundraising so you don’t get ripped off.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). In a post-COVID world, customers have never demanded more transparency into supply chains, workplace culture and equity ownership. and Canada. More posts by this contributor.

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

At Forward Cities we are committed to being a resource for cities ready to take these steps and fostering opportunities for shared learning and collaboration between cities, and we are keen to collaborate with funders and other regional and national organizations who share this commitment. The time for action is now.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. The scarcity mindset holds us all back.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Few Culturally Competent Mentors/Social Capital – There is a lack of qualified, culturally competent (and affordable) business mentors that can impart invaluable insights and strategies with (emerging) business owners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Specifically, I hoped to join a company with a very strong engineering and product management culture that needed a CEO with strategy, vision, business development, fundraising and team-building expertise. I also knew Peter Fenton, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful investors and a leading funder of the company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

If as investors we foster meaningful relationships with our funders and truly care about empowering diverse entrepreneurs, we’ll see more of that wealth circle back into our mission. Returnly’s founder recently offered to put some of his earnings back into our fund, enabling more foreign entrepreneurs like himself to access capital.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Investors and venture capital firms should prioritize funding startups founded by diverse funders, while also encouraging majority founders to diversify their teams in order to get better returns on investment. Diverse startups are the key to innovation, creative thinking and growth, which is now more critical than ever before.

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Surdna Foundation

JULY 2, 2020

With so many communities around the world suddenly facing urgent, unexpected need, funders quickly realized they needed to pivot and add rapid-response tactics to their grant portfolio in order to quickly support their grantees. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on grantmaking.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Hendrix Buckner joined the organization, which supports women founders and funders, as chief of staff in early 2022 and stepped in as interim CEO in January following the resignation of former CEO Mandela S.H. For us, that means that we are passionate about moving money, changing culture and shifting power.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Radlo-Zandi covers the basics with regard to hiring, managing expenses and shaping company culture, but she also urges self-funders to tamp down expectations and take a measured approach: “Don’t be tempted to hop on a plane at a moment’s notice to meet potential customers in glamorous locations or for meetings in far-flung locations,” she writes.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And the culture inevitably shifted, from a passionate commitment to founders and the entrepreneurial journey, to a system focused on generating cash from paying corporate customers, with the promise of “innovation” on their terms.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 19, 2021

While both financing options might seem unobtainable to most small business owners, there are actually more funders outside of traditional ones (like banks or financial institutions) that may provide you and your business with working capital that can be used to help scale your business offerings.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

Active Solution Development: We worked (and are continuing to work) with our partners to develop new approaches to addressing COVID-19 and its repercussions, engaging our funder network to immediately learn the big questions they were grappling with and develop new programming and other solutions. 8 and above.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the footprint of women founders and funders, has released its annual report for 2020. The networks made online — either through the rise of meme culture or Substack spice — can be a competitive advantage in the world of investment, as two new funds this week showed us.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s giving a presentation before a client or potential funder. Now, eye contact and other elements of delivery are highly cultural, so when you identify your audience in advance, be sure to ask yourself what’s appropriate for that audience. It’s something we do every single day, in every country, industry and sector in the world.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We’re building the pre-eminent ecosystem for founders and funders of “calm” companies, while catalyzing the opportunity for more funds, services, and partners focused on serving these businesses.”. New York-based “culture-tech” venture investment firm. Calm Company. “We’re Elevation Capital. Evolution VC Partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

This is not a fight I choose to fight, mainly for my sanity, but because most of us (and I mostly speak for myself here) have to conform to speak and portray ourselves in a way that makes us is less threatening to the “bro” culture to be seen in the same light. This, for me, means relying on my male founder friends to vet for me to investors.

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