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Things To Expect As A Woman Founder When Starting A Tech-Based Company

YoungUpstarts

by Saumya Bhatnagar, CTO and Co-founder of InvolveSoft. I pitched to 86 investors before getting the green signal from only 5 of them. A study shows that female founders fear that they are less capable of running a business than men, and therefore, fear that they will lapse into chaos. Dealing With The Fear of Failure.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman). TWTFelipe moved to Montreal, Canada. But I have some.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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Swedish Start-Up to Fight China’s Polluted Air – But The Movement Is Nation-Wide

YoungUpstarts

Being born and raised in a country where recycling and sustainability are at the core of the society, Johannes Herrmann, the co-founder at Airinum , knows exactly how valuable fresh and breathable air is. We think of it as a free commodity, but countries like India and China prove us wrong day after day.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green. I was mostly just doing.

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17 Entrepreneurs Celebrate Summer Business Accomplishments

Hearpreneur

This summer, I landed endorsements by Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup, master marketer Seth Godin, the founders of BNI and GreenBiz.com, and several others for my 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, forthcoming in March from Morgan James (and already available for preorder). Thanks to Shel Horowitz, Green and Profitable ! #7

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My Water Pilgrimage:

Austin Startup

But thanks to the tenacity of Umesh and his team, as well as employing some excellent enterprise sales techniques that we can all learn from, several dozen projects were finally green-lit, with the first breaking ground in February of 2018. Right: Umesh, Founder of NEWAH. Left: Mahesh, Program Manager.

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