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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This movement, coupled with free websites and apps, makes it possible for almost any technical person to start a business. In my view as an advisor to new ventures, the Maker Movement is an integral part of a new age of the entrepreneur. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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6 Keys To Hiring The Best Team For Your New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 03/13/2017. Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree.

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4 Reasons A Diverse Sales Team Will Boost Revenue

YoungUpstarts

Fast forward to 2017 and a lack of diversity in the workplace remains an issue. Competitiveness Project found that employers spend an average of 41 days trying to fill technical sales jobs versus 33 days for jobs in other professions. Access to More A-players. A recent study from Harvard Business School’s U.S.

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SXSW Startups: New Age Meats

Austin Startup

New Age Meats cofounders Brian Spears and Andra Necula The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. As Ethereum took off in 2017, we began taking Ethereum profits and investing in more speculative crypto protocols. We held our first close on August 1, 2017. We’ve been investing in cryptoassets since 2013.

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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. Meet The Top Women Investors In VC In 2017. Women’s Venture Capital Fund.

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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Intezer.com is headed by Itai Tevet, the CEO, Roy Halevi the CTO, and Alon Cohen Executive Chairman and Founding Investor. The company is headed by Shimon Hason, the CEO, and Erez Fliess , Omer Raviv and Alon Fliess all of whom are cofounders of the startup. Other investors include Samsung Next, Magma, Intel Capital, and OpenView.

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