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

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Register Led by an eminent team of investors and industry captains from around the world, Awesome Ventures brings together a wealth of experience in strategy planning and diverse sectors. At the helm of Awesome Ventures is Lok Yek Soon, a visionary entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience within the startup ecosystem.

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This freshly funded startup spun out of a student-run Stanford investment club

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In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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Exploring Shaun Gold’s Entrepreneurial Journey as Nightlife Ninja, Entrepreneur, Bestselling…

Jason Malki

He is a successful entrepreneur, VC, 2x best-selling author, speaker, super connector to startups and standouts, Jeopardy contestant, and screenwriter/executive producer. His latest venture, The Brain Wrx , revolutionizes the way founders approach and grasp growth by providing a straightforward and effective framework for success.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

TechCrunch

Singh Cassidy, founder of premium talent marketplace theBoardlist, will discuss making the leap into entrepreneurship after leaving Google, her time as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners and the framework she’s developed for taking career risks.

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What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup?

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Gregg Adkin is vice president and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital , the global venture capital investment arm of Dell Technologies. What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup? Startup founders frequently ask me about the role of a board of directors. What exactly can a board help you do?

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Announcing the TechCrunch Early Stage Audience Choice winners

TechCrunch

Workshops, breakouts and roundtables — led by established founders, leading subject-matter experts and VCs — cover core entrepreneurial topics across fundraising, marketing and operations. But how can founders look that far ahead, in a turbulent market, and predict their future business model? Check out the agenda !

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A 7-step method for running effective pitch meetings

TechCrunch

He believes that when startup founders know how to raise money, they can find the freedom to approach investors with confidence and raise the capital they need to grow their company. Tal developed his methodologies in the course of leading five startups over more than 20 years. . How to break into Silicon Valley as an outsider.