Board Effect

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nonprofits enhance civic engagement by encouraging community involvement, maintaining a sense of democracy, filling the gaps in governments services, and giving the community a voice. Provide learning opportunities where groups and individuals can learn about community issues and organizations before, during, and after events.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”). Apply here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Although relatively new, they announced early last year that their community had already grown to more than 500 startups, and 2,500 investors. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. He connects the Lab with the defense user community. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014. Takashi and Masato founded Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab (LEL) in 2014.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Impact tech investors include Bridges Fund Managements, DBL, Accion, Elevar equity and Patamar, among others.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The “official dignitary” tour of Silicon Valley is like taking the jungle cruise at Disneyland and saying you’ve been to Africa. From Santa Clara to South San Francisco it’s 45 miles of one bedroom community after another. It has no large monuments, magnificent buildings or ancient heritage.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 6, 2012

Let’s be more stark and look at two places in the world that simply don’t create very many jobs of any type - sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. And yes folks, it is growth companies and growth companies alone that drive equity values and lift stock markets. Provides security from threats to health and violence (i.e.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

She previously worked with the Clinton Health Initiative improving access to vaccines in Africa, and has been has been named to INC ’s 35 Under 35 and Forbe s’ 30 Under 30 lists. What we couldn’t (agree to) was how to split founder equity. There were two of us full time on the startup. Two were half time.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

We're excited to be working with @theohubs to forge the path towards true diversity, equity and inclusion this @sxsw. The BGV Pitch Competition flips the traditional pitch competition on its head: allowing the audience to donate, eliminate the panel of judges, and empower the community (audience) to ask questions and vote for the winner.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

Or, as Melinda puts it in The Moment of Lift , “If you don’t understand the meaning and beliefs behind a community’s practices, you won’t present your idea in the context of their values and concerns, and people won’t hear you.”. Gender equity lifts everyone.”. That requires empathy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. Sal Khan : first cases of community spread. You’ve got to build equity value." People here started talking about things.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I do not have financial or equity or any other stake in any company mentioned in this blog post (except Google). You can get public feedback from their community of professionals (currently 8,000). You are not going to use all of them all at the same time (or with every client), but 1. it is good to know what is out there and 2.

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