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

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

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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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Lok Yek Soon, Founder of Awesome Ventures: Empowering Impactful Startups for Lasting Change  

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At the helm of Awesome Ventures is Lok Yek Soon, a visionary entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience within the startup ecosystem. The investment memo allows us to test our understanding just like the pitch deck helps founders crystalise their ideas. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money?

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Daily Crunch: VW Group changes drivers — CEO Scott Keogh shifts to launch Scout EV brand

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Here’s the agenda , and these are the companies that are pitching at the event. Puff, puff, pay : Over in TechCrunch+ land, Anna lights up a market analysis into cannabis commerce company Dutchie’s new Dutchie Pay product that enables you to digitally pay for cannabis when purchasing at one of the dispensaries the company works with.

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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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Daily Crunch: Child-friendly Amazon Glow video chat projector now available across the US

TechCrunch

It will be all hands on deck today and tomorrow as we listen to startups pitch at the YC Demo Day, so look out for a deluge of stories over the next two days. Other goings-on across the startup ecosystem: Pinecone is building a database system especially for data scientists and just raised $28 million to add some growth rings.

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Impact Hub Belgrade – 5 years of making, failing and creating impact

Impact Hub

The opportunities we have been providing are an entrance point to becoming part of a community that enables you to create new economic models. A Demo Day with a star-studded jury and an investor pitch with international business Angel Investors with our Impact Hub Milan partners. We organized a number of events.