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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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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue.

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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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Going Beyond Facial Recognition – Why The Future Of Security And Possibilities Lie In Video Analytics

YoungUpstarts

An article by Forbes published in 2013 speculated the different biometric solutions that could be possible with smartphones. He previously cofounded Scintera, a fabless semiconductor company in 2001. The options moved from voice recognition to fingerprint identification, and facial recognition.

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My Advice To Entrepreneurs: Consider Canada For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. It was there that we founded and grew the company until we raised our venture round in 2013. Photo credit: Canada flag from Shutterstock. For aspiring entrepreneurs, it’s hard to resist the allure of Silicon Valley. Immigrating from Canada to the U.S.

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Ask an Entrepreneur: Can I Really Start a Business in 30 Days?

Up and Running

“Begin with the end in mind or risk being side tracked” Advice from James Griffith, Co-founder of Mous. Advice from Samantha Strom, Co-founder of Hazel Lane. I came up with the idea for Hazel Lane in November 2013 and we launched our first box in December (with subscribers and everything!)

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

We’ve been investing in cryptoassets since 2013. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. Factom, Inc.