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3rd Annual Women in Tech Summit Examines Strength, Fundraising & Diversity

Austin Startup

Hold everyone accountable (including yourself) Stacey Cleveland , Equity Strategist for Employee Engagement at Google, left us with some wise words: “We don’t have all the answers, we may ask you to google it.” Prepare interviews to make it an easier experience for the interviewee) 2. Collect Data 3. Evaluate subtle messages 4.

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The Santa Solution To Finding And Keeping Good Employees

YoungUpstarts

Fairly compensated employees give their best, whether at the North Pole or in Cleveland, Ohio. Jeffrey Kadlic is the co-founder and managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners LLC, a small business private equity fund investing growth equity nationwide in Second Stage Companies. Image credit: Wikipedia ].

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

There is nothing wrong with lifestyle entrepreneurs as they are providing valuable products and services to the local/regional economy, but these do not make for good venture or angel investments under the traditional equity based venture model. So I launched The Big Bend Theory with Bruce Cleveland.

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Lending to Small Business Picks up

Up and Running

While these forms of borrowing may cost more than traditional business loans or home equity loans, they do give businesses an option to get around the stringent requirements that may have shut them out from bank loans. “We’ve long believed [that] one of the keys to renewed U.S.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Here’s how the pitch sounds from the engineer’s perspective: ‘For ten whole percent of equity, you will slave away to build a prototype out of my shitty idea, not have any say in the decision-making process…and oh yeah, you could be fired at any point.’ Date for a bit, then split the equity. Amazing post!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Britain’s Apax Partners in cooperation with Baltimore, Maryland’s JMI Equity has purchased the US-Israeli software company Paradigm for $1 billion. Cleveland, Ohio-based Primus Capital has recently acquired Israel’s AOD for $90m. Stanley is headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. PARADIGM IS SOLD TO APAX AND JMI FOR $1 BILLION.

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