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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

This is going to be BIG.

When the Mets got to the World Series, they release a kettle corn flavored ice cream with blue and orange M&Ms and a contest on social media around naming the ice cream. I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing.

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If NYC is going to be a real innovation hub, we can't have our own senators supporting SOPA/PIPA

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” That was until I found out that New York’s own senators, Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, appear to support these bills. That’s the way it should be, because if you had to wait for many of the big media companies to innovate with their content, we’d still be in the media dark ages (in many ways, we still are).

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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The media certainly seems to have decided which group they’d rather work for. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. Or is it that the media just never tells the story this way? Pardon the very intentional expression.)

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Steve Case Testifies on Expanding Access to Capital Across America

Revolution

Ive been grateful to see that support firsthand throughout my careerwhether through the passage of the JOBS Act , the creation of Opportunity Zones , or, most recently, the Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) initiative. But they can only fully develop that culture if they have the capital needed to scale.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. billion of total venture capital.

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Venture Capital Firm Goodwater Secures $1 Billion in New Funding

AsiaTechDaily

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. Most of the capital, 60%, will be allocated to early- and seed-stage startups. With this successful raise, the firm now manages $3.3

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. We have invested $17.3

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