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Female Founder and Author Interview: Minué Yoshida

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , today we present Minué Yoshida, owner of the New York-based Yoshida Academy which offers courses to help clients in mastering public speaking and leadership skills and diversity, equity and inclusion consulting. I’ve been in so many conferences, seminars, etc.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Doing Reference Checks on VCs “Try to speak to at least one founder that the investor has worked with in a failed investment.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? When you are trying to raise “strategic money” since these people are often hard to reach and they are often more used to being approached by bankers. What kind of deals should I be doing?

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? When you are trying to raise “strategic money” since these people are often hard to reach and they are often more used to being approached by bankers. What kind of deals should I be doing?

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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

ConversionXL

61% of buyers said they plan to buy from local and independent retailers six months from now. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. Do you need to hire additional staff to complete the drop-offs? It’s really about thinking about the role of each channel and how it fits into your overall game plan. We did them.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

Nonprofits are certainly social enterprises, but many for-profit companies fall into this category by making the conscious decision to have their focus be an altruistic cause, rather than the maximization of profits. Mission is primary and fundamental; organizational form is a strategic question of what will best advance the social mission.”.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3: The five critical ingredients to build a big company

Austin Startup

I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. In this case, they could build and service it but they needed a third co-founder to sell it. Mindset : We had big plans to change the world from the beginning. There is usually a way.