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3rd Annual Women in Tech Summit Examines Strength, Fundraising & Diversity

Austin Startup

Christy Cardenas , Managing Partner at Ecliptic Capital , warns that it can ultimately ruin your business, so you must be diligent with your investor choices. However, Sara Brand , Founding General Partner at True Wealth VC , said there’s never been a better time for women to raise money. Collect Data 3. Evaluate subtle messages 4.

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The Santa Solution To Finding And Keeping Good Employees

YoungUpstarts

by Jeffrey Kadlic, co-founder & managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners. Fairly compensated employees give their best, whether at the North Pole or in Cleveland, Ohio. Image credit: Wikipedia ].

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. So I launched The Big Bend Theory with Bruce Cleveland. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Here’s how the pitch sounds from the engineer’s perspective: ‘For ten whole percent of equity, you will slave away to build a prototype out of my shitty idea, not have any say in the decision-making process…and oh yeah, you could be fired at any point.’ Date for a bit, then split the equity. Amazing post!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Britain’s Apax Partners in cooperation with Baltimore, Maryland’s JMI Equity has purchased the US-Israeli software company Paradigm for $1 billion. Cleveland, Ohio-based Primus Capital has recently acquired Israel’s AOD for $90m. Stanley is headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. PRIMUS CAPITAL ACQUIRES AOD.

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