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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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28 Entrepreneurs Explain The Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Relationship troubles and high tensions during the pandemic will lead to an abundance of divorce filings in the United States. The trends shifting in the eLearning sector due to the influence of COVID 19 on schools and colleges across the United States and the world are shifting to a hybridized-online and in-person format.

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Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups

Steve Blank

Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. The military awarded $445 billion in contracts in 2020. To attract interest the Defense Department is handing out unprecedented numbers of small contracts and in 2020 seeded 1,635 firms with more than $1.5 He’s a former U.S.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

ReadWriteStart

This week's One Million by One Million roundtable was our 75th session, and we worked today with three entrepreneurs from the Midwest region of the United States. Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We started our alcohol delivery service in 2014 on the basis that alcohol is one of the most consumed beverages in the United States. Like 50 Million Americans, thanks to COVID, that day was May 1, 2020. #5- To offer consumers convenience. Photo Credit: Chris Vaughn. Thanks to ???? Thanks to Danielle Calabrese, De La Calle ! #13-

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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

Here is a quick video: It all started with this tweet by Jeff Richards of GGV Capital ( @jrichlive ) on Twitter: Caption this: pic.twitter.com/EoOHzVKhYh — Jeff Richards (@jrichlive) February 7, 2020. My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. I immediately liked what I saw.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Did you win big on the Super Bowl? Or maybe you can’t wait to make your picks for Euro 2020. André Flórido , Betmarkets’ Co-Founder & COO, answered questions about his company, shared some book recommendations, and explained why he thinks obedience is overrated.