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First LGBTQ+ in Tech Forum Gathers DFW Community for Inspiring Conversations

Austin Startup

While this isn’t Capital Factory’s first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) event or initiative, this was the first of its kind in the DFW area and definitely not the last. Here’s to More Powerful Conversations The Forum ended with a happy hour and another chance for guests to network and reflect on the topics covered throughout the day.

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What does it mean to be Latinx in Tech Today?

Austin Startup

Our imagination is bounded by our experience,” Hector shared, and diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical to being able to imagine things properly. Latinas in Tech began as an informal networking group, and now it’s grown into a massive organization that tech companies not only embrace but also view as a recruiting opportunity.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. In terms of monetization, Vin expects the ad networks to supply ads to his site by selling ads to local restaurants. That sounds great. It may also be expensive to do.

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum.

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Why Kickstarter and crowdfunding can’t replace traditional investors

The Next Web

Are traditional investors really that great when you can leverage your social networks for cash? The manufactured lock-picks snapped too easily, his backers started to turn on him, and soon he was being contacted by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. What actually happened, however, was a much sadder story.

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CoLiving & Shared Housing Isn’t Just for Urban Millennial Bros

Hunter Walker

Here are two examples of this trend among the middle class elderly in California and Massachusetts. Maybe residential real estate will no longer be an appreciating asset as millennials invest in other more liquid, higher volatility areas (private company equity, crypto).