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Founder Interview: RedMane Technology’s Tony Lakier

The Startup Magazine

As you have a history of building early stage companies, what is the most important thing you tell startup founders? Growing up in South Africa, I had a pet giraffe named George that followed me around. Trust the good people. What is one interesting fact about you that people may not know?

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I specialize in brand strategy from the early stages through launch, and use my trusted network of groupies – from Web designers to photographers – to support the vision for brands I’m working with. I would joke that I was a music groupie and then I turned into an “entrepreneur” groupie.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

A good example is the young firm Fifty Years , an entrepreneur-run early stage venture capital company based in San Francisco, which backs startups that aim to be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one of the SDGs. Cecile Blilious and Leehe Skuler. GITA identifies four points of activities: 1.