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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. I recommend building a strong internal tech stack, to handle the deluge of requests for help you’ll get from companies as you scale. AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs. Advantages.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. ” To many prominent entrepreneurs and impact-focused investors, socially-minded businesses are the direction of the future. Here in the U.S.

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How to Choose a Business Location

Up and Running

In this article, we’re going to review the things you need to keep in mind when choosing a location; offer you advice on where to look for a business location; and also provide you with a few resources we think you’ll find useful as you work through the process. See Also: Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs.

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

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Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. » More. » More.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

So you want to be an entrepreneur, huh? So you wanted to be an entrepreneur, huh? Eric Ries : You're not like a lot of other tech folks. I went to Rhode Island School of Design. Eric Ries : And pretty unusual among tech platforms, if we're being honest. 8:22) On how crisis reveals character. (9:11)

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New England's Top 10 Innovators

Seeing Both Sides

This week, The Deal declared that Route 128 is well-positioned to continue its leadership in innovation, despite the economic crisis, due to its diverse economy and robust enterpreneurial environment. Ray is a controversial figure as a futurist but is an accomplished inventor and entrepreneur. 2) Ray Kurzweil. 5) Yet Ming Chiang.

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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

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. And that would never get past an Ethics Review Board because you can't. He's a good friend.