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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

I am very happy to announce today a new program I’ve been working on designed to support women and diverse entrepreneurs, particularly those in the technology sector. Pioneering Program Launched by Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York and the National Association of Investment Companies. competitiveness.

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Your Company Can Either Lead Sustainability Efforts Or Get Out Of The Way

YoungUpstarts

When Netflix began streaming media directly to customers in 2007, it changed the face of home entertainment. If your community attracts top talent and businesses, then your company’s resources, networking opportunities, and growth partners all improve. by Dan Lauer , founding executive director of UMSL Accelerate.

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Giving Tuesday: How BoardEffect Is Giving Back to Nonprofits

Board Effect

BoardEffect was founded in 2007 by a team of web developers that served nonprofits and educational institutions. The web developers determined to make the duties of the wonderful people they worked with easier by making a program to help them lead their organizations more efficiently and effectively. Revisiting BoardEffect’s History.

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Female Founder Interview: Latina Leader Elizabeth Colón

The Startup Magazine

To get us started, describe what the NAWBO does in 10 words or less: Elizabeth: It provides women business owners with leadership, education and networking. The organization also offers leadership training, speaking opportunities and savings through our partner programs that will more than pay for a member’s participation each year.

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The R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator, Powered by Techstars

Feld Thoughts

We’ve been investing in this area since we started Foundry Group in 2007 through our human computer interaction theme and recently added an investment in Dragon Innovation into the mix. It’s super exciting to me to do an accelerator program specifically around connected devices with Techstars.

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The Air Force Academy Gets Lean

Steve Blank

In 2007, I graduated United States Air Force Academy as a computer engineer and entered the Air Force’s acquisition corps , excited and confident about my ability to bring technology to bear for our airmen. And I couldn’t have been put in a better place: testing the Air Force’s newest network security acquisitions.

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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.” Founded in 2007. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Time will tell.

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