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How to Beat Inequity in Investment

Austin Startup

of global VC deals going to companies with at least one female founder. of all small businesses, generating more than $400 billion annually in revenues. Venture Capital Doesn’t Invest In Blacks And Latinos, But That’s Changing In Oakland. Here are some tips on how to play the game, get ahead, and get funded. and represent 8.3%

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Last up, Ashesh Patel from Oakland, California, pitched StyleShop247.com StyleShop247.com.

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Smarter Career Choices #3: Solve for the Global Maxima!

Occam's Razor

If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one: Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43. Global maxima view of success: Microsoft is losing. [

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. I was talking in one of these conversations with Brian Chesky, who talked about the collapse of revenue and the dramatic effect that this had on Airbnb.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?