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Supporting HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund

Feld Thoughts

HBCUvc is seeking to expand its VC Lab and Fund program that invests in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx entrepreneurs building technology companies. The fund is managed by university students participating in HBCUvc’s Fellowship programs. She asked me to support the expansion of HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund.

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Beyond the Lemonade Stand: How to Teach High School Students Lean Startups

Steve Blank

Their seniors just completed the school’s first-ever 3-credit semester program in evidence-based entrepreneurship. By the end of the half hour, students were suggesting that our school should offer more programming earlier in school and throughout this course. Hawken School has now given us an answer. Customer Development Teaching'

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

mashable.com

Thinking of applying to one (or all) of the summer accelerator/incubator/angel/mentoring programs like TechStars , Joystick Labs , or any of those found on this comprehensive list ? That’s one of the things we might develop during the summer program. via 7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications. [.]

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

In turn, some funds have a more friendly posture towards us and try to structure deals that incentive syndicate investors in a way that doesn’t massively disadvantage the seed investors. We help surface seed companies to them and typically don’t compete against them for new rounds or for follow-on dollars.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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Why Today’s ‘Mentorship Programs’ Mostly Fail Women in Tech (and How to Improve Them)

Hunter Walker

EDS: It’s funny — I started my career in investment banking working on the Equity Syndicate desk taking companies public. If I had to pick one, I’d say that mentorship programs are the biggest fallacy in making any real change. Second, women’s mentorship programs almost exclusively feature women-to-women pairings. Why is that?

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10 Ways To Get The Capital You Need For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. A good place to start looking is Grants.gov , which is a searchable directory of more than 1,000 Federal grant programs.

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