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Experts share tips for mission-driven organizations on DE&I

Board Effect

By making DE&I central to our mission, values, and daily operations, we not only enrich our own organizations but also contribute to building a more just, equitable, and inclusive society.” β€” Patrick Downes, Partner, Governance Ireland Inclusivity equals effectiveness and innovation. β€œDE&I

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Milis Bio

Austin Startup

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. Ireland-based Milis Bio is hoping to be at least a small part of the solution. Complete our product pilot with our new partners, Grupo Bimbo, in designing a sweetener of the future for the baked goods industry.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

My wife, Ann, and I took a trip this past spring to visit Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Russia. We had a lovely time in Northern Ireland. We finished our first full day at a dinner with Halo , the Northern Ireland Business Angel Network (Alan Watts).

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Can Ireland Offer Startups Something Silicon Valley Can’t?

ReadWriteStart

β€œOur startups get tons of hands-on support – much more than they’d get almost anywhere else in the world,” says Lorcan O’Sullivan, manager of Enterprise Ireland , one of the latest of the many campaigns by governments around the globe to attract startups to their shores and inject new life into their local economies.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. taxes are a company’s biggest worry, it might think about incorporating in the Cayman Islands or Ireland. John Vrionis ( @jvrionis ) is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who focuses primarily on early stage enterprise and consumer technology investments.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

And just like with VC’s – it is as much the partner your working wit as the group more broadly. They have great people and probably some duffers. Hairy dentists / Pig farmers – I told the story last night how when I set up my first company the seed investor was a pig farmer from Ireland. That is a true story.