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5 Things to Consider When Choosing a Business Partner

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Perhaps that’ll make it difficult to have the difficult conversations that may be necessary in the course of running a business. Founders need leadership qualities to grow the company. Having multiple co-founders can lead to personality clashes. Should business partners also share a close personal relationship?

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2017 Diversity Data for Capital Factory

Austin Startup

We need more Women and People of Color on the Capital Factory leadership team. Thank you to Eugene Sepulveda , Georgia Thomsen , Heather Brunner, Josh Jones-Dilworth , Mark Phillip , Mellie Price , and Preston L. Here are some of the biggest opportunities we have for improving: We need more Black founders, mentors and angel investors.

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3 Years and 4 Jobs

Austin Startup

Let’s be real… I was raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia and I had a privileged upbringing. Total Freedom… When I graduated college that boyfriend I was clinging onto in Georgia, broke it off with me. Then the next day, she’d be taking a new direction, and the conversation would lack productivity. I was 24 at the time.

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Light Up the Room

Austin Startup

At the time of this writing I have just attended a Georgia Tech Foundation board meeting in Atlanta and am always there surrounded by achievers who exhibit similar energy. If phrased properly in the framework of high energy leadership, that can be smart delegation and not a sign of disinterest. That’s not a bad model to follow.

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Be Coachable

Austin Startup

As a founder you ultimately have to learn the skills to play your leadership role, and having a seasoned booster early on just moves you faster along that path. I started every one of my tech businesses after Peachtree Software in the ATDC in Atlanta and was part of the Georgia Tech alumni committee that founded it.

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Flashpoint NYC Demo Day 2016, May 3

David Teten

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital , the HBS Alumni Angels of New York , and Alpha Venture Partners , are co-sponsoring their 6th New York City Demo Day, next Tuesday, May 3, 2016, from 10 to 12 AM. Flashpoint is a startup accelerator at Georgia Tech. TimeSpiral extends corporate culture.

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I’ve had a podcast for about a month, and here’s what the data is telling me

Jeff Hilimire

What led me here, if I’m really being introspective, is the feeling that most of the things that I write about on this blog – time management , building a great culture , leadership , etc. So I thought I’d try my hand at recording some of those conversations, and the idea of a podcast was born. I don’t know.

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