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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. We are happy to now support every & all accelerator in town that provides capital and office space and we want to focus on mentorship, coaching, advice, community building, etc. You may enjoy looking at that last link.

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Going to Raise VC? Here’s a Primer on Process, People, Deck

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This isn’t weakness – it’s leadership. Do you really still need a Powerpoint deck in 2011? Give everybody pages of the deck they’re to cover or parts of the demo for which they are to talk. When you get questions act like a quarterback farming some of them out to your team. What is a VC looking for?

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

Both Sides of the Table

Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. They’ve had a huge head-start on the competition and are well-positioned to maintain leadership as we adjust to building community in this new COVID era. Peloton has recently done a big push to get users to add hashtags that they create?—?this

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Leading with Authenticity: How to Become and Remain an Authentic Brand

StartupNation

A brand’s representation of reality begins with and grows under the leadership of a company’s founders, its CEO and its top executives. Here is what you need to know to make an authentic brand come to life: The value of leadership. Related: Expert Advice for the 4 Million People Who Launched a Business in 2020. Most aren’t.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

Both Sides of the Table

2011 was the first year I went to SxSW. Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness (Tiger Moms & the true definition of success). And why I still made it to breakfast at 8.30am with Christina Cacioppo the next morning (although I’m not sure she found me too Haimish of a conversationalist that day ).

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Eliminating gender-based violence in Peru one ‘sonrisa’ at a time

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

My two friends and I started Tejiendo Sonrisas, a Peruvian nonprofit organization, on March 1, 2011. Any pieces of advice you would give to other social entrepreneurs in the YLAI Network? Can you expand on why you launched Tejiendo Sonrisas? We want to sensitize more people about these problems.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . It seems like good advice to me. Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S.

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