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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

She is the CEO & General Partner of the investment firm Street Global. 10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? [11:53] She is the CEO and general partner of the investment firm, street Global. Let's go back to South Africa. Does your superpower have a name? [10:00]

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. We have been on a drive to add more operational partners. What does that mean?

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Techstars Mobility (Detroit).

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL. The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there). “Mark, I’m an Associate Partner.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

Instead of countless usernames and passwords, you have one identity to use for a variety of activities you want guaranteed security: online shopping, social networking, online dating, and online financials. miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

This included health insurance and making them domestic partners. The Fat Sheep project in South Africa's barren Karoo landscape is my favorite turnaround story. Starbucks, which is now a common coffee hangout place all over the United States, has an interesting owner. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It began as a network that brought physical copies of newspapers to travelers abroad. I recognized the challenges that the majority of the unemployed face in South Africa: a lack of finance, lack of frequent access to technology, education and language issues (English is not the first language of many in South Africa).