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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we never lost the finance bug. We were infatuated with tech.

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

Up and Running

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. Alan Feld, cofounder and managing partner of Vintage Partners, cautions Israeli entrepreneurs not to define their product category too narrowly.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? I began my business in 2014 because, well, it was just time. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about