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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Finding The Right Incubator For Your Business: The Three Most Important Questions To Ask

YoungUpstarts

So you’ve decided to enlist a technology incubator to help your new business get off the ground. You have a great idea and a strong business plan, and an incubator is just the partner you need at this stage. Luckily, there are a good number of incubators now available to burgeoning entrepreneurs. Not all incubators are the same.

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Nicolas Brusson discusses BlaBlaCar’s journey from French success story to global winner

Cracking the Code

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. How did you go from VC to founder?

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Burpple Enables Social Sharing Of Food Experiences

YoungUpstarts

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Fellow co-founder Dixon Chan believes that the application taps on existing consumer habit of taking a picture of their meal before digging in.

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TackThis Helps Small Businesses In Singapore Sell Online

YoungUpstarts

The founders of local startup company PayWhere believes there’s an opportunity in this gap, and that’s why they’re introducing TackThis. “Social commerce is rapidly becoming the preferred way to do business online,” says Dickson Gregory, CEO and co-founder PayWhere. billion in size.

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Burpple Enables Social Sharing Of Food Experiences

YoungUpstarts

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Fellow co-founder Dixon Chan believes that the application taps on existing consumer habit of taking a picture of their meal before digging in.

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