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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. And if I tried to find out?

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Office and Operations. SALES & MARKETING. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Email address: Home.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This is when I realized that I can use my business/sales experience that can and therefore I quit my job on the spot and started BuffetGO. From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012. At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company. Image Credit: Jen Perry.