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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

The group is about 22 people; managing directors, partners and COO’s of major investments firms in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia. In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation. More details.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

Consider the case of Tradesy founder Tracy DiNunzio who could only launch her startup by giving up her bedroom for a year and earning $28,000 that allowed her to not have a full time job that year. .” So those underemployed people who have part time jobs but need more wages will gladly take on 5 dogs / week in their house on DogVacy.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. They’re happy to facilitate revolution in Moldova, Iran, Egypt and Libya. Now days starting a new business is as simple as a mouse click and a few phone calls – Instapreneurs. They have a willingness to ‘open source’. Make a call and have a view.

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How This Entrepreneur is Giving Back to Charity Through Collagen Peptides

Hearpreneur

Glen ‘BUB’ Doherty was the oldest and closest friend of BUBS Co-Founder, Sean Lake. Glen was one of the Navy SEALS who was killed after hours of fighting heavily armed terrorists in Benghazi, Libya, in September of 2012. Looping in the backstory. 10% of every sale of every item from BUBS Naturals goes directly to charity.

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How This Entrepreneur is Giving Back to Charity Through Collagen Peptides

Hearpreneur

Glen ‘BUB’ Doherty was the oldest and closest friend of BUBS Co-Founder, Sean Lake. Glen was one of the Navy SEALS who was killed after hours of fighting heavily armed terrorists in Benghazi, Libya, in September of 2012. Looping in the backstory. 10% of every sale of every item from BUBS Naturals goes directly to charity.

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

online.wsj.com

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Miscues Before Libya Assault 453 comments. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

I sat down with David Spandorfer , co-founder of Janji , a running apparel company, to talk about the intersection of an everyday need, water, and an act of physical activity that almost everyone can do, running. This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019.

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