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Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Thrive With These 5 Tech Tools

YoungUpstarts

by Eyal Shinar, CEO & Founder of Fundbox. These days, it’s not uncommon for companies large and small to be completely distributed, i.e., have a wholly remote workforce. Eyal earned his MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Everything big must first be small.

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Tech Checkup: Cloud Technology Redefining the Dental Industry

The Startup Magazine

What that means: In one “real world” case, a Pennsylvania dental group realized on a Sunday that, due to an epic snowstorm, its offices would have to stay closed on Monday. Jason Post is CEO and Founder of MBS Secure. The Complete Cloud at Work. About the author.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. with many more states pending legislation.

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Interning at Remagine Ventures (Guest Post)

VC Cafe

As I finished my sophomore year at the University of Pennsylvania , I was looking for a summer internship. Throughout my time at Remagine, the importance of maintaining a good relationship with founders became clear. The experience heightened my interest in venture capital where I could work with entrepreneurs on the investor side.

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

online.wsj.com

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation.

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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. I immediately liked what I saw.

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The Lightspeed Batphone?—?Welcome Brian Kasser and Meredith Kendall

Lightspeed Venture Partners

It allows our founders to have a direct line to us, and lets us respond with urgency and engage with founders when, where and how we can be most impactful. Over the years we’ve had the privilege of working with amazing founders and helping them grow from infancy to IPO or acquisition in many cases. And it works.