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Some of the Best Founders Are “Difficult” People

Hunter Walker

Or those special little bombs of a phrase like “enjoys playing founder more than being one” and “tells a good story but no follow-through.” Do they have a cofounder who can balance them out? Pair a Difficult CEO with a COO/CTO/CPO who knows how to manage alongside and whole just might be greater than the sum of its parts.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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Upcoming NYC family office conferences: Real estate and Blockchain

David Teten

Keynote speakers: Mr. Uri Levin , Co-Founder, Waze; Mr. Michael W. Keynote speakers include: Eric Ly , Co-Founder of LinkedIn (NYC), Alexandre Perrin , head of Richard Branson’s Single Family Office and Virgin Groups’ Blockchain investments (London) and Jack Chen , Inventor of the ATM (Dallas). Register here.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). The founders had been responsible for gaining staggering scale in the past 3 years, having been trail-blazers in building a network of talent and an unrivaled understanding of the YouTube ecosystem.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No For Chris Siragusa, former CTO of Kozmo, it was a chance to talk about his new company, Max Delivery , which is a lot like his old company. In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) After Grieving, Starting Over.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No For Chris Siragusa, former CTO of Kozmo, it was a chance to talk about his new company, Max Delivery , which is a lot like his old company. In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) After Grieving, Starting Over.

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How Tech for Campaigns Has Helped 3,000+ Techies Make a Difference in Progressive Politics

Hunter Walker

I met Jessica Alter when was running FounderDating, which helped solo founders discover their perfect cofounders. Jessica, along with two cofounders, started Tech for Campaigns , which connects tech volunteers with the campaigns of progressive candidates for skill-based volunteering. 10 of every $1 they raise on digital.