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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

View from Seed

Founders do not have this luxury. Most founders are going through hell right now, and that is not going away any time soon. Others are just starting out, but the financial safety net they thought they had from a spouse’s job or highly appreciated stock options has disappeared. Wait and see. This is scary. Number of Investments.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. I mentioned your co-author a lot of times, co-authors, you know, don't get enough credit.

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Experts share tips for mission-driven organizations on DE&I

Board Effect

Solving our most pressing social issues, providing a safety net of love and care, this is the immeasurably critical role of our social sector organizations. Effective leadership and governance thrives on diversity of perspectives and diversity of perspectives doesn’t just happen. It takes intentionality.

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Demand Generation: Turn Ideal Buyers Into Superheroes

ConversionXL

Lead generation vs. account-based marketing: Fishing with a net or fishing with a spear. With lead generation , you cast your net wide to catch lots of fish. Focus on thought leadership over hard selling. Trust is earned through thought leadership. Thought leadership needs to be educational and provocative at times.”.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

An entrepreneur who brings out innovation and disruption at the same time is highly successful Muhammad Yunus, the founder of microcredit and micro-finance, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize is an excellent example of a successful entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of the famous Huffington Post and the founder of Thrive Global.

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Do These 8 Things To Build A Successful Diverse Team

YoungUpstarts

According to a report by McKinsey & Company, companies that commit themselves to diverse leadership are more successful. Our Source Digital team is plentiful with industry experience, including one of our co-founders – and my sister – Laura Frecon. by Hank Frecon, the chief executive officer of Source Digital.

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