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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. Broadly speaking, it suggested that female-led startups are a good financial bet.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. to assist with the local go-to-market approach. But is all of that changing? billion in 2013.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The ingredients used are all human grade, and we strive to use organic and local farmer’s market/CSA ingredients when possible. I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing). I would love logging in to Second Life to sell marketing and advertising to businesses trying to make it in a virtual setting.