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Announcing our investment in Ada Support – the AI support platform that’s answering 2 million questions a month

Version One Ventures

He stumbled across “Volley,” a startup we had never heard of before, but appeared at the top of the search results (for the query “Toronto”, “no known funding”) and had a high momentum score. The platform makes powerful artificial intelligence accessible to non-technical support teams. We led the Volley pre-Seed round.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Silicon Florist. Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors. 10 tips for mentoring startups. 10 tips for mentoring startups. Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. Search for: July 3rd, 2012. 3 Comments.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. What a waste.