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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Last week, (seems that all of my postings start this way) I attended the Second Annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit , a Women’s Network for Sustainable Future event , at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. There were about 150-200 women in attendance (my guestimate).

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Last week, (seems that all of my postings start this way) I attended the Second Annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit , a Women’s Network for Sustainable Future event , at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. There were about 150-200 women in attendance (my guestimate).

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Why Venture Capital is the Perfect Fit for Me

Version One Ventures

Through these experiences, I discovered my passion for leadership development and championed it into University of Toronto Engineering in two ways: a program that equips graduate students with leadership theory and practice, and what is now an institute for leadership education in engineering – the first of its kind in Canada.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, Note (1): For those not familiar with the geography of the SF Bay Area, the city of San Francisco proper sits at the north end of a peninsula that stretches down to the smaller city of San Jose.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space. San Jose Mercury News: Maker Faire Mixes Business With Wackiness.

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Austin’s Entrepreneurial Landscape

Austin Startup

Austin Texas, hometown of True Wealth Venture’s takes the top spot, followed by Miami, then San Jose and NYC ranks at number seven. City leadership is actively championing the development of later stage funding sources, and the city’s culture lends itself to supporting that. versus $10M+).

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. Partner Events. Partner Events. Tell us at partners@women2.org. San Jose, CA. Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own. Debriefing.