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Celebrating 2023 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

Over the last few years, we have been supported by our dedicated volunteer and professional staff to continue to offer better member experience, expanded our professionalized education programs and continued to be the voice for protections and incentives for angel investors in the public policy arena.

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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

Revolution

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. We dive deeper into the definition in our 2022 Annual Report. Place comes into play here, too.

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How a female commercial engineer in Paraguay is overcoming barriers

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

The YLAI Network is celebrating Bibiana’s tenacity in overcoming various barriers she has faced on her way to commercial engineering success, her hard work in the financial sector, and her passion for giving back to her community. The most effective tools for women to get out of poverty are to: Democratize access to education.

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The idea that university degrees don’t matter is a Silicon Valley fantasy

TechCrunch

Secrets to Gaining Admission to the World’s Topic Universities,” and is CEO of Crimson Education , a university admissions consulting company. Young aspiring entrepreneurs apply for Y Combinator in the hopes of receiving seed funding, mentorship and networking opportunities to help create the next unicorn.

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Did Facebook and Twitter Make Us Better or Worse in 2016?

This is going to be BIG.

Yesterday, I got caught up in letting my frustration over the election boil over onto Twitter, and it's definitely not the first time. As the media business model got more competitive, and the "Big Three" networks felt competition, the function of news changed. I talked about it with a few people. We didn't used to be this dumb.

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Y Combinator widens its bet in edtech in latest batch

TechCrunch

Y Combinator is slowly growing its stake in education companies, as the sector balloons with newfound demand from remote learners. With this context, I will use the current edtech cohort within the batch to sketch out one version of the future of education in the eyes of this specific demographic of early-stage founders.

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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

While some adapt and survive, others end up retreating and creating M&A opportunity down the line for those left standing. You and your potential acquirer may have different definitions of “scalable systems.” When current and new secondary sale opportunities arise, would you like me to contact you?”

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