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Dan Lok Explains Venture Capital Funding and How to Secure It

The Startup Magazine

They may be interested in consumer products, software, fintech, AI, or green technologies. This is the first piece of paper that a founder sees from a venture capital firm when they are communicating their interest in investing in the company. Due Diligence and Closing the Deal. Understand VC Term Sheets.

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Advice For Innovative Companies Entering Emerging Markets

YoungUpstarts

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. Be prepared for the road ahead, as Scott Taylor, Founder of Green Endeavor, can attest. Green Endeavor provides eco industrial cleaning chemicals to manufacturers around the country. Taylor’s experience is great insight for you.

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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true that we also fund more mundane stuff like B2B software aimed at productivity improvements but we want some big bets in every fund where we feel we can contribute to “making our own little dent in the universe” as the saying goes – by backing ambitious entrepreneurs with that same goal.

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Rejecting The New Normal

YoungUpstarts

by Rohan Thambrahalli , the Founder and President at UpstartWorks. One-to-ones and performance reviews suddenly needed to happen online, where confident direction and meaningful conversation could be undermined by slow buffering speeds. The apps and software we use are only as good as the people working behind them.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

79% of consumers trust an online review as much as they would a recommendation from a friend. And 94% of shoppers state that just one bad review has convinced them not to buy from a company. You can’t avoid negative reviews, opinions, and comments altogether. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin. Image source.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Votem

Austin Startup

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! Votem is a complete end-to-end platform that takes your organization from registration through to results and review. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.