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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Google for Startups Accelerator. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

For this product, I later realized that I was the software architect, the frontend engineer, the backend engineer, the database administrator, the systems administrator, the QA engineer, and lastly I was the only technical support guy. The product eventually became bigger and bigger and more difficult to maintain.