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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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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Advisor. ); STARTUP. SALES & MARKETING. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C.,

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. This is when I realized that I can use my business/sales experience that can and therefore I quit my job on the spot and started BuffetGO. Thanks to Nancy D. Image Credit: Jen Perry.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S.