Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

Fortunately, the business funding gender gap is narrowing, and larger shares of debt and equity capital are going to women-owned ventures, in part because more women are in lending and investing decision-making positions. Federal government agencies require SBA-approved certification as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB).

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intuit 2020 Research Report. Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. Working for Equity Instead of Cash. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. I am very picky about the companies I am willing to take equity from.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2020

Remember that a formal board can technically replace you, so make sure you choose only people you respect, who will set realistic objectives, and provide good business governance. A reasonable place to start is one percent of your company equity, plus actual expenses to cover travel and meeting attendance.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2020

Starting your own business can be incredibly rewarding and should be encouraged, but obviously 2020 has not been a normal year and those that have only recently started/have plans to start will have obvious concerns surrounding the pandemic. Another Government financial support scheme in the UK is the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Recognition of internal contributions can be as simple as a public “thank-you,” or as formal as a promotion or equity sharing. The same principles can then be applied and extended to make you a leader in your community, industry organizations, or government politics. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/13/2020.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

As per a report by Google, Temasek Holdings, and Bain & Company, as many as 40 million people in six countries across the region — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand — came online for the first time in 2020. In 2021, ASEAN DeFi startups could raise $1 billion in equity funding.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Not only has the current situation that 2020 has created allowed people to explore entrepreneurship, but people are also starting to realize that they should not depend on only one income stream. Thanks to Mark Woodbury, Minerva Equity ! #12- Only more so as we move forward. Thanks to Gabrielle Hartley, Esq. #8-

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 12, 2020

For instance, if you are looking to purchase a home and want a home equity loan it may be more difficult for you to secure a loan. You are eligible to receive these self employed loans if you follow the exact steps set by the federal government. If you are self employed you must be very diligent about your finances.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

What that means is that a traditional 80% / 20% equity bond portfolio is set to lose a lot more money in a crisis than most investors are comfortable with. population, will turn 62 or older by 2020 ( www.census.gov ). How does the increase in government regulations come into play?

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Board Effect

AUGUST 4, 2021

The fact that investors have put four times more money into ESG investment funds in 2020 than the previous year is another clue that community bank boards should consider the impact of ESG initiatives. ESG is a commonly used acronym for environmental, social, and governance. What Is ESG?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In fact, I just did a case study on Coastal Contacts , a $150 million e-commerce company that sells contact lenses online and has built itself up largely by using inventory financing as opposed to venture capital and equity financing. Google Adwords advertising. That sounds great. Photo by [link]. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they trillion in 2020. In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600 cities worldwide, TechRepublic reports.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I asked her to stop wasting her time on producers in countries that do not have any focus on carbon footprint optimization, and instead look for countries and states with governments that have incentives and programs to encourage producers to optimize their carbon footprint. Hard ROI is essential to get dollars flowing. DealCurrent.com.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 7, 2020

Her previous role was the founder of a third party marketing consultancy, West River Partners, that raised capital for Emerging Markets-based equity hedge funds. government mandates that employers offer placement services to their former employees. The two-time entrepreneur, Terawatt is Francie’s second for-profit endeavor.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Pitchbook Data released a new report on the state of Private Capital in Israel 2020 , covering private equity and venture capital. billion in 2019 and are pacing for a high showing in 2020 as well. billion in H1 2020. billion in H1 2020. I’ll focus on VC only here as it’s the core focus of this blog.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

The Texas Startup Manifesto The roadshow was a successful trip that we will definitely repeat in 2020. Dallas and Frisco We started the morning off at Old Parkland in Uptown Dallas, which is “the Capital Factory of private equity”?—?a Follow @TexasManifesto on Twitter to find out the dates for the next one or visit TexasStartups.com !

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2020

If appropriate, offer to sign a longer agreement in exchange for lower cash payments in 2020 and 2021. Award equity to employees equal to the value of their reduced salaries. Some companies, and perhaps some governments, may default. Review all marketing programs. Cut marketing by x%. If necessary, you may need to take action.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

In many ways, Austin of 2020 isn’t all that dissimilar from the Austin of the 1970s that brought creative people like Willie Nelson here or the Austin of the late 1990s that got national attention for software companies like Trilogy. and not the startup kind but the Facebook/Google/Apple/Big Tech Co kind?—?which

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO. 2020 and Beyond? During these years you do see the rise of “cross-over” investment in private companies by large public market investors like Fidelity, T.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO. 2020 and Beyond? During these years you do see the rise of “cross-over” investment in private companies by large public market investors like Fidelity, T.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 3, 2019

As I mentioned last week , I just started a new chapter of my career journey as CEO of LRN, a SaaS company based in New York City that provides ethics and compliance education software while advising companies on shaping values-based leadership, cultures and governance as sources of competitive advantage.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Obviously, the challenges of 2020 were next level. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. If I could add one more bonus idea, this is if you’re incorporating your company, I would think about taking 1% or 2% equity and setting it aside for other stakeholders. BC: Yeah, Reid.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Obviously, the challenges of 2020 were next level. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. If I could add one more bonus idea, this is if you’re incorporating your company, I would think about taking 1% or 2% equity and setting it aside for other stakeholders. BC: Yeah, Reid.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

On March 13, 2020, my wife and I went out to dinner with my dad in Brooklyn. The speed of that initial spread caught the state and local governments flat-footed. Racial equity protests campaigned hard for change in how policing is done. That would be our last time indoors in a New York City restaurant. Come to Austin!

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Unfortunately, there come times when an industry is being irresponsible and facilitating such harm that government has to step in and act. Regulation can have major unintended negative consequences so it’s generally best when government can work with industry and public interest groups to craft solutions everyone buys into.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020).

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

After all, in the year 2020, investors that had access to VC-backed IPOs, earned $206 million in average one-day gains for each of 165 separate offerings, for a total of $34B in one-day wealth transfers (including over-allotments). Last year, 2020, the AVERAGE IPO was underpriced by 47.9%! Here is the real gut-wrenching punch line.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2020

She is a business psychologist, advisor and consultant to public and private companies as well as government and nonprofit institutions. And so I’ve been working with multinational companies around the world, I have assisted startups, I work with private equity funds and hedge funds, family businesses on succession planning.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The result is more startups, more money and firms to fund it, and an increasing belief that access to technology-related equity (either as a founder, employee, or investor) must become increasingly democratized or rebalanced as a result of the compounding effects at scale we are now witnessing. 3/ The Streaming Media Effect.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Who benefitted equity-wise from Uber's success? Black drivers make up over 20% of who is actually behind the wheel but have no equity in the company as they are not technically employees. Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) May 28, 2020. Could you not use this *exact* description for those who have been protesting?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Cohen asks. Impact Tech: the intentional use of technology and science to benefit people and the planet.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A lot of these challenges became grossly apparent in 2020: social instability, climate crisis, public health crises, national security crises, disinformation. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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