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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. The group is about 22 people; managing directors, partners and COO’s of major investments firms in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

I sat down with David Spandorfer , co-founder of Janji , a running apparel company, to talk about the intersection of an everyday need, water, and an act of physical activity that almost everyone can do, running. The first thing is to make sure we are finding the right partner. Every season we pick a different country.

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How This Entrepreneur is Giving Back to Charity Through Collagen Peptides

Hearpreneur

Glen ‘BUB’ Doherty was the oldest and closest friend of BUBS Co-Founder, Sean Lake. Glen was one of the Navy SEALS who was killed after hours of fighting heavily armed terrorists in Benghazi, Libya, in September of 2012. Third, my future business partner TJ stopped by and saw the collagen on the counter.

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How This Entrepreneur is Giving Back to Charity Through Collagen Peptides

Hearpreneur

Glen ‘BUB’ Doherty was the oldest and closest friend of BUBS Co-Founder, Sean Lake. Glen was one of the Navy SEALS who was killed after hours of fighting heavily armed terrorists in Benghazi, Libya, in September of 2012. Third, my future business partner TJ stopped by and saw the collagen on the counter.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc.,