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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

Aspen is looking for institutional investor and entrepreneur speakers willing to share their investing insights and personal experiences. The technology sector is of particular interest to the delegates for several reasons: The Maghreb is being used as a near-shore IT platform for Europe, especially as Eastern Europe is expanding.

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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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

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Bitesize Monday: Israeli Startup Headlines

VC Cafe

Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Perhaps this is how we’ll start solving co-existence in Israel? Footbo raises $2.5 million from Pitango for 11 Runs , a fantasy Baseball game, and 11Rush , a fantasy American football game.