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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

People told me it was impossible to have our product launch featured on one of the top tech blogs without spending $3,000 on some fancy PR agency. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) This is only relevant for non-technical founders like myself. secured their seed round in only 2 months.

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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

While there may be generational gaps about fashion or social conventions, millenials are often at the forefront when it comes to technology. Whether Millennials, our largest generation at 80 million strong, can harness their enthusiasm into viable businesses models remains to be seen. At the end of June, U.S.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I am a big advocate of transparency in business and government and believe that many injustices in our society exist because people are ill informed. Technology has helped close the information and resource gap for many vulnerable people, and I wanted to be a part of this revolution. So I turned the business model upside down.