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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

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I’m super proud to announce that DataSift has just completed a $42 million financing round coming at the end of a year where its revenue grew several hundred percent year-over-year. We co-led the A-round with IA Ventures. In the B round we invested the maximum amount we could alongside the lead – Scale Venture Partners.

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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.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. I’m sure the head of the Federal Reserve Bank could spook the market or the heads of state of the US, China or Iran could. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult. This is how VCs feel. And so it goes.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. It is their GOALS, expectation and desires that will drive success. not mine as hairy and big as they may be. Thanks to Sid Mohasseb. #6-