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Why it is hard for VCs to say ‘no’ and why that ‘no’ could be good news for an entrepreneur

The Next Web

They speak about how they love to help entrepreneurs build successful companies, yet when I ask them to give me feedback on my business plan or idea, they usually don’t even bother writing me back. Yes, it is true that some entrepreneurs either don’t receive a response or get a pre-made template. VCs are arrogant. VCs are cowards.

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[Seoul] Serviced Office Cum Business Incubator WAHA Offices Opens New Location

YoungUpstarts

“We see ourselves as partners as we aim to help firms to accelerate their growth. . “We see ourselves as partners as we aim to help firms to accelerate their growth. That’s why we want to be in key locations, including London, New York and San Francisco in the short-term.

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Separated at Birth: Techstars and Startup Weekend

David Cohen

At these events (there about 1,000 per year from Boulder to Mongolia to Chile to New Zealand), entrepreneurs and the community gather to build startups in 54 hours. The end result was an expanded community of entrepreneurs here in Boulder, many of whom I still keep in touch with today. Events were happening all over the world.

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Richie Norton on The Power of Starting Something Stupid

Life Beyond Code

I actually raised money, created a fund and decided to back certain budding entrepreneurs who had won the business plan competition. For example, a woman from Mongolia wanted to start a cashmere company and had won the competition a couple years earlier. So, I went ahead and backed her and became a part of the cashmere company.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeremy Howard : I mean, just the data like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, right next to China, a lot of trade, a lot of social back and forth, Chinese New Year, yet they're in double figures, numbers of deaths. Mongolia, which I think had a law about requiring them. Jeremy Howard : Yeah, the same advice that I give entrepreneurs.