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[Event] People Matters TechHR 2020

YoungUpstarts

To take place on 19-21 February 2020 at Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre, the event will host over 3,000 attendees from over 40 countries, as well as featuring over 200 tech partners, more than 60 startups and 50 investors. The post [Event] People Matters TechHR 2020 appeared first on Young Upstarts. and 100+ speakers.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos. An example of LexSet training data.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone.

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How Venture Capital Decision Making Has Changed During the Pandemic

View from Seed

Early stage deal activity showed real resilience coming off of a slow Q2, with deal count at angel and seed stage in 2020 now about at par with the same period in 2019. billion in 148 funds for the first half of 2020. VCs have sourced from known founders and trusted networks to curb risk.

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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

2020: “Hold my beer.” Turns out 2020 was a new year and a new budget—and that budget had been severely cut back on venture because of the pandemic. I was there for the first Etsy VC pitch meeting in a Fort Greene apartment. You cannot die today. Give me six months. Give me two months. Whatever, just not today.”

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TECHSTARS AUSTIN KICKS OFF 2020 MENTORSHIP-DRIVEN ACCELERATOR CLASS, REVEALS 10 SELECTED STARTUPS

Austin Startup

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. Homebuyer (Cincinnati, OH) Dan Green, CEO Homebuyer is a lead nurture system for mortgage lenders that reduces customer acquisition costs and increases per-loan profits.

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Midas List 2020: Forerunner’s Eurie Kim (and Why Company Names Matter to Her)

Hunter Walker

Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. We value operational experience greatly and we spend a lot of time expanding our network to include industry leaders and experts both in traditional consumer/retail companies as well as leaders of top growth stage brands to support our founders.

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