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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. ” (I discuss this more in Why are Revenue-Share VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders ?) Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Supercharge Growth Without Raising Money

YoungUpstarts

It was a way for us to stay creative and it also brought in some revenue. I always encourage entrepreneurs to get creative with sourcing finance. I applied this method to every single one of our hires and today our team consists of 22 people from United States, India, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Greece and the Philippines.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators. Don't want to learn code? That's right--Indiana.

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Why Nuance Is Giving It Away

www.businessweek.com

Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Markets & Finance. Daniel Ives, a managing director at investment bank FBR Capital Markets ( FBRC ) , estimates that Nuance’s revenue from mobile software will double, from about $250 million today to $500 million, over the next three to four years. Bloomberg Law. Bloomberg BNA. Data Solutions.

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