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How Kerry McDuling Went From Employee To Running Her Own Publicity Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The first is Sapphire Club – a membership based online club that offers a wide variety of resources and a community of like-minded people. I was born in South Africa and emigrated with my parents and younger brother, firstly to Ireland, then to Australia, arriving here when I was 14. She also has two mentoring programs.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

The term “impact investment” was coined in 2007 — an approach that deliberately builds intangible assets alongside tangible, financial ones. During the years I’ve been doing impact investing I’ve felt quite lonely and frustrated that there wasn’t enough information and a real community that spoke our language,” she says. “I