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What does it mean to be Latinx in Tech Today?

Austin Startup

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. Despite not having formal coding skills or startup experience, Pamela became a founder by using Facebook as her platform.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. This round was led by Kevin Spain from Emergence. 4mm in Series A. OpenCandy.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Today billions of dollars that companies could have invested in innovation are sitting in the hands of private equity funds. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. In Spain I have large companies. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. I first did it for the founder.

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Cracking the Code - Untitled Article

Cracking the Code

Among them was a small company of two people in Italy called PostoInAuto (at the time, BlaBlaCar had only launched in France and Spain). PostoInAuto’s founder, Olivier Bremer, was terribly talented, but his business was not at a point where he could raise a significant investment. Thus it is not only about the money.”

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues.