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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Overcoming Challenges of Growing Globally. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some. Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

Both Sides of the Table

Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. The co-founder of Google wasn’t born in America nor was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, WhatsApp, Yahoo! and the founder of eBay and many others. Yeah, he was born in San Francisco.

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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

According to The Economist forecast for 2015, ASEAN will add USD 335 billion and become the fourth largest economy in the world. In a survey conducted in Europe, 60% of respondents said intentional late payment was the major cause of hikes in DSO. Economic Watch, Singapore’s Economic Outlook for 2015. Anthony Coundouris.

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SaaS Wars: Europe Awakens

Cracking the Code

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. When I moved back to Europe in 2011, I had to reduce my activity significantly in this area, as there was not enough going on.

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From humble beginnings to market leadership: UiPath rings the NYSE bell!

Cracking the Code

Founded in Bucharest, and now headquartered now in New York City, UiPath rang the bell this morning at the NYSE, becoming the largest public cloud company born in Europe. Born behind the iron curtain and despite the humble beginnings of UiPath, Daniel had global ambitions from the offset.