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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Sesie Bonsi.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Intellectual Property.

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Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian is speaking at TechCrunch City Spotlight: Pittsburgh

TechCrunch

. “Carnegie Mellon’s decades-long leadership in research and education in AI and robotics has catalyzed an innovation ecosystem in the Pittsburgh region where entrepreneurship, creativity and placemaking intersect,” Jahanian told TechCrunch. It’s also free to apply to pitch your startup at the event ( click here to apply ).

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How to Get Started Mapping Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem [Updated]

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Most obviously, ecosystem maps can serve as a resource guide for entrepreneurs in the community. A map can also be an effective guide for all of the actors in the ecosystem. Finally, ecosystem mapping can be a catalyst for collaborations. Their Stakeholder mapping tool works well to depict entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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PH venture investor Kickstart Ventures commits to expand investments globally

AsiaTechDaily

Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. Ambitious and promising startups abound, but none managed to scale as fast or as large as those in neighboring countries. on its first year.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

By enabling customers that shopped online to be mailed an invoice with 30 days to pay, online shopping could be made easier and safer for consumers, which in turn helped increase sales for retailers. Pitch perfect, you might think. “That was our loss for being too arrogant,” says Zennström.

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A university’s role in an emerging startup community and other conversations

Startup Catalyst

That absolute concentration of tech-enabled entrepreneurial businesses is quite incredible and it just makes you realise what is possible when you lift your gaze and look a bit further afield. From Beer and Pitch nights to Startup Hatch to Disrupting Law, student-led events have shown that students are really hungry for this stuff.