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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

I know we romanticize the LGBT entrepreneur making an app for the LGBT community, but too many of our ideas are “ghettoized” and not seen as “big ideas”. Yes, you like hip-hop, “urban” clothing and “ ratchet television”, but all that sinks you deeper into stereotypes. Prove more through metrics. Feign familiarity if you must.

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

In Silicon Valley, it's not just the companies that have had to pivot and change direction, so have investors, VCs, the entire ecosystem of the startup community of biotech as an industry, has had to make a very dramatic change to work on pandemic relief, disease prevention, laying the foundation for future prosperity.