Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Encourage More Women Into Careers in Venture Capital It’s time to tear open the seemingly impenetrable ‘old boys’ network It’s no secret that founders seek out investors who value diversity and recognize the success that comes from having diverse teams. However, the question of how to make this a reality remains unanswered.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Are you trying to figure out how to build a place that creates venture backed IPOs or are you trying to build something where technical people can feel like they’re in a community? You also need to establish a culture of sharing and collegiality. First, you have to ask yourself what the desired outcome is. You need both.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Informed by the experience at McMaster-Carr and mentorship conversations with other companies, George left his role in 2012 to team up with his brother, Andy George, and former colleague Miles Ulrich to found an employee mentoring software and white glove service startup. He might be right.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

This center is envisioned as a comprehensive hub, encompassing an IT park, a technology park, startup support groups, cultural and spiritual centers, libraries, a sports complex, and housing facilities for employees and resident entrepreneurs. in foreign currency and 12% p.a. in national currency.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is proud to support International Women’s Day (IWD), which celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political contributions of women. Venture funds would be crazy not to examine this possibility and in turn, invest heavily in women-led businesses.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

More, he says that in the same way that the prominent culture publication Hypebeast created a “desire for new product and newness,” Faculty has “mastered the drop model,” meaning that Faculty has and will continue to advertise a limited supply of a product before invariably selling out of that item. ”

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 15, 2021

Whether they’re highlighting a few entrepreneurs in the community, a new innovation district or initiative, or how their startup community has come together to support entrepreneurs, these cities have created engaging messaging that showcases their entrepreneurs and startup community and in the process supports a culture of entrepreneurship.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 30, 2021

In many ecosystems outside of the major tech hubs, founders face cultural, legal, reputational and other hurdles to building a successful tech company. Israel : Elevator Fund , Hanaco , Innovation Endeavors , JANVEST Capital Partners , Pereg Ventures , Team8 , numerous others. Poland : ff Venture Capital. GlobalScot Network.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

While taking a gap year in college, she worked at Microsoft on designing a build-your-own virtual workforce focused on stay-at-home mothers, and it got her thinking about skill gaps, outsourcing and culture around working with companies from abroad. The company raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding in 2020, and today announced $4.5

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When CFE was founded by famed NASA administrator and former U-M professor Thomas Zurbuchan in 2008, its aim was to evangelize entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor and to help instill the entrepreneurial mindset into the regional culture. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve. Just as the $2.4B

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

The NJEDA is taking important steps toward Governor Murphy’s goal of making the Garden State’s economy stronger and fairer by investing in inventive companies led by entrepreneurs that represent New Jersey’s culturally diverse population.” million in income replacement grants, as well as mentorship and training.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While passion provides self-motivation, it also serves to attract talent and investors to the venture. Not only do they provide coursework and training, but some offer venture funding and mentoring. Mentorship: Having access to someone with much greater experience is of tremendous value to a first-time entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

In many ecosystems outside of the major tech hubs, founders face cultural, legal, reputational and other hurdles to building a successful tech company. For Israel, we have Elevator Fund , Hanaco , Innovation Endeavors , JANVEST Capital Partners , Pereg Ventures , Team8 , numerous others. As a result, many of them emigrate to the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Upfront Ventures has a deep-seated commitment to equality in funding & building diverse teams across all ethnicities, nationalities and genders. I have seen in your 5 years with us countless hours dedicated to mentorship and advice to younger founders of color and showing them a roadmap for success. It takes a village.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The wonderful thing about rural America is that we have cultural assets and mindsets that allow us to thrive when it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation. Targeted initiatives: Rural Entrepreneurship Venture. Talent seeks opportunities, and opportunities can (and must) be created. Tell them that SourceLink sent you!

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. DATABASE OF VENTURE CAPITALISTS WITH SCOUT PROGRAMS.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Maryam Haque is the executive director of Venture Forward. Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. Duo has a culture centered around inclusion and belonging. Not only that, but Ann Arbor is home to great people.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The country also organizes the biggest startup festival, COMEUP, a 3-day extravaganza with lectures, panel talks, mini-events, and relevant topics for startups, attended by global and domestic startups, experts, mentors, innovators, media, venture capitalists, etc. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

As the early-stage, biology-focused accelerator arm of SOSV, IndieBio gives the companies in its program $250,000+, mentorship and full access to a biology lab to bring their ideas to life. California Cultured : Lab-grown cocoa. The company says it can grow cocoa that is less bitter, and as such requires far less sugar to be tasty.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

million seed round , led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with participation from Whitecap Venture Partners, DVP, Grand Ventures and ID Ventures. They hire locally and remotely and have a close-knit culture built on authentic connections between team members. Red Ventures. Apply now to Red Ventures.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While the State is not known as a hub for venture capital, we have frequently been recognized by national sources as a great place to start a new business. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking. Get started! Oklahoma is very friendly to entrepreneurs.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

month acceleration program, the 60 selected startup teams will be working under the mentorship of five prominent Korean accelerators. This year, five excellent Korean accelerators to assist foreign startups in growing in Korea are CNT Tech, Yozma Group Korea, Bigbang Angels, Pen Ventures, and Nautilus Investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

She has keynoted the Oprah conference, given a TED talk, and been invited to Google, Amazon, the World Bank, Union Square Ventures and Red Bull to teach about navigating change and founder and startup wellness. Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Perhaps the best known new VC platforms of the last 10 years that are done on more modest scales are First Round Capital and True Ventures. When we think about how we want to run our firm at Upfront Ventures we clearly had this debate ourselves and tried to decide what we felt was right for our skills, ambitions and management styles.

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Impact Hub

JULY 30, 2021

I discovered new motivations and professional challenges in the social field, explored intercultural networking, improved languages, and got in touch with new cultures. Four years ago, I decided to do a master’s in social economy in Valencia and it was a game changer for me.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

Despite that lack of experience, I am fortunate in that I have direct access to many of the greatest VC leaders and franchises for mentorship and guidance. Granted, 6.5 years is not a long arc – I have not experienced a prolonged down market as a private investor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Most recently, Medium lost half its staff in July after a strategy shift and an internally criticized culture memo. Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’. YC, with its extensive network — perhaps even because of it — may increasingly find it isn’t immune to the trend.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing. By making corporate funders, and not startup founders, their primary customer, Techstars built a centrally-controlled sales- and operations-driven culture that made startups the product, not the customer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Ozor mentioned how undergoing several changes, self-doubt and fatigue took a toll on his mental health; eventually, he had to sort help through some mentorship programs. But it wasn’t a comfortable process. Most times, your investors and board are present when it’s working. When it’s not working, it can get lonely.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Since taking the helm, Hendrix Buckner got the Miami chapter going in late January, “relaunched its VC Cohorts program for partner and principal level investors, expanded the VC Champions mentorship program and launched our first national Black and Latinx Media Mastery program,” All Raise said in the blog post.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

.” The company said this action was taken as a result of “several” employees filing complaints about exclusionary cliques: “As any company might, Free Agency encourages a positive workplace in which all team members feel supported, rather than a subset of the team garnering or wielding too much cultural power.”

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