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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

They need to be focused on housing cost, transportation crime, and the kind of zoning that enables a critical mass of interesting local businesses to thrive. In 2005, it was a risky bet to join Union Square Ventures and plant my VC career here in NYC. Mayors don’t build startup cities. They can’t make a place a “bitcoin city”.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

This includes AssureX Health that has raised $71 million including capital from Sequoia. VCs generally have had an easy time fostering relationships with large ad agencies and media companies given how much our businesses have intersected over the past 20 years. None of us are derivatives of Silicon Valley.

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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

TechCrunch

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. Sectoral transformation.

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A Weeklong Series: 10 Tech Trends from the Decade That Was … and What Will Be

Revolution

Over the last decade, there have been many innovations that have changed our lives by addressing long-standing pain points in age-old industries like transportation and financial services, and in so doing, raised complicated questions for policymakers and society. has exploded. that in many ways is really a sick care system?—?as

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Extra Crunch roundup: Optimized SaaS pricing, recruiting growth experts, VC surveys, more

TechCrunch

COVID-19 has spotlighted many of the weakest points in our transportation system, but some of the rapid shifts in consumer behavior are creating opportunities for tech once considered fanciful, like sidewalk delivery robots and eVTOLs (electric vertical and takeoff vehicles). and Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. I, II and III.

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MoveinSync Targets $50 to $60 Million in Latest Funding Drive for Commute Innovation

AsiaTechDaily

Their offerings include MoveinSync Ion, a SaaS-based platform designed to manage employee transportation, and MoveinSync One, a comprehensive solution for accessing various commute modes like cabs, shuttles, and buses.