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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

Many countries have imposed travel bans and an unprecedented country-wide quarantine has been announced in Italy, Spain and Bulgaria. Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders.

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Twitter Link Roundup #109 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era - [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! The photo on the left is of Dario Cecchni. The full story in the Other section below. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Juicy Bits – [link].

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European startups: Here’s how to (not) raise capital in the US

The Next Web

Previously, he worked in venture capital in Europe. One of the last entrepreneurs I met on a funding trip, ended up raising a $6M round in Italy. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Stefano Bernardi, who is on the founding team of Betable , where he heads Customer Development.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

In fact, I just did a case study on Coastal Contacts , a $150 million e-commerce company that sells contact lenses online and has built itself up largely by using inventory financing as opposed to venture capital and equity financing. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally.

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The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or …

Feld Thoughts

We were in the middle of fundraising for Softbank Venture Capital (which became Mobius Venture Capital.) At the end of June I went to Italy for a week vacation with my wife Amy and my parents. As many of the Cylons from BSG are fond of saying, “All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.”

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. Will this Trend Last? In my mind there is no doubt this a lifetime trend. The press will romance the topic and then spurn it.

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Creativity Conferences – Valuable or BoonDoggle?

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Some of the most interesting people on the planet are in Italy, right now. I’m missing the CREA conference this week, literally and figuratively. What I miss is the “creativity community&# – that wacky group of people interested in the subject. Raise a glass and have a dance for me, and more importantly — learn [.].

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