Surdna Foundation

APRIL 11, 2022

As a racial justice funder, we also know that shifting power and building equity, mutual accountability, and authentic, trusting relationships are vital to our grantmaking. If you’re like us, you probably thought, “Why didn’t anyone tell me?” The truth is that it’s tricky to give honest feedback to the people who give out grants.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

In that prior post, I had offered Y Combinator as a positive example, but I didn’t break down exactly why. This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Step 1: Find the best founders An uncomfortable truth about this work is that not all founders are created equal.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

When leveraged properly, an exit can be the beginning of a firm’s true impact, especially when we’re talking about giving all founders equal opportunities and empowering the best ideas. More posts by this contributor. Miami won’t be the next Silicon Valley because we don’t need another one.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

What they found was that professional development podcasts were much more popular compared to other topics, and so they had an opportunity to re-jigger the product to focus on training and specifically target enterprises. Spokn’s product evolved across three iterations. Getting publishers to commit was tough though.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yet, now is a very apt time to take another look at the cannabis opportunity in the U.S. Bearish markets and high interest rates often cause private investors to turn away from anything resembling a risky investment. Quite a lot has changed since our previous U.S. cannabis survey from 2020. and the banking and tax headaches it creates.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ ’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

I asked them to treat me like a funder. The ecosystem building process can be nonlinear and multidimensional, and there is a need for measurements that are responsive to complexity and change. To advance metrics and methods for this field, we need more dialogue and stronger feedback loops between researchers and ecosystem builders.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

All VCs, including us, regularly see investment opportunities which don’t fit our mandate. We’re launching our own scout program, and want to benchmark compensation and structure against our peers. The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Reports indicate they secured 83% more funding than the previous year, primarily attributed to the record-setting $329 billion U.S. startups raked last year. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. These numbers are more frightening when retraced almost a decade back.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. Same goes for SMB investment sites like Honeycomb Credit , The SMBX , and Worthy Bonds (business owners often fund others) and Prosper or Sofi (many funders have borrowed themselves).”. Administration , e.g., 409a valuations.

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