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2017 Diversity Data for Capital Factory

Austin Startup

2017 Capital Factory Accelerator Diversity (out of 61 companies) We know that there is a systemic discrimination problem in the tech industry caused by hundreds of years of institutional racism. Our 2017 annual report listed 30% diverse members, 25% female members, and 50% diverse investments.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

2017 Recap. 2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together.

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We’re Programming Around Your Needs: Highlights of Lean Startup Week 2017

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. Livestream - Because we’re all about community building, we invite you to host or join one of our free livestream meetups. 31 ( limited to the first 200 Gold Passholders.) Side Note: Eric and Marilyn will be doing a webcast as a preview to their workshop on Oct 11.

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4 Reasons A Diverse Sales Team Will Boost Revenue

YoungUpstarts

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: Fast forward to 2017 and a lack of diversity in the workplace remains an issue. This gargantuan figure does not even include Asians, the LGBT community or Native Americans, to name a few.

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.”

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ProductCamp Austin 2017 — a few lessons

Austin Startup

ProductCamp Austin bringing the product community together. Twyla’s Design Sprint Journey Douglas Ferguson , Founder and President, Voltage Control Main take-away — Don’t sweat a failure or a failed win. Recently many of us dedicated our Saturday attending and presenting at the biannual un-conference, ProductCamp.

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16 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Own Business

Hearpreneur

1- To achieve work-life balance Photo Credit: Yasmin Purnell I started my own business back in 2017 because I simply couldn't stand not having control over my time, income, and workload any longer. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Here is what some entrepreneurs say about why they started their business. #1-