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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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Identifying and filling these cultural competency gaps benefits your entire community, and it is an essential component of continued economic and social progress. Culturally competent consulting service provider ThirdEye Network. These resources can help you get started: IEDC’s Playbook for Equitable Economic Development.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

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I have always had a strong affinity for Japanese culture, perhaps because I grew up in Northern California. I love these little cultural idiosyncrasies. And cultural gaffes. So that’s what’s on my mind this Independence Day 2011. That was the year I spent July 4th in Tokyo, where I was living for 6 months.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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And it seems to be creeping back into startup culture of late in a worrying way. Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. Yet it tempts us all.

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Faulty Logic in the Venture Capital and Female Founder Discussion

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So, if you''re going to argue that the process of venture capital is inherently unfair to women, here''s the logic that you *should not* use: "Less than 3 percent of the 6,793 companies that received venture capital from 2011-2013 were headed by a woman, according to a study from Babson College released Tuesday.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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In my mind, Randy Newman said it best, “ I love LA &# – idyllic weather, a mélange of cultures and big industry. But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ).

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

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We remain steadfast in our commitment to continuing to increase all of the above. And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

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He goes on to say, “We live in a highly individualistic culture. 2011 was the first year I went to SxSW. Do they have a strong sense of culture? When we’re shopping for a vacation we’re primarily thinking about Where. The travel companies offer brochures showing private beaches and phenomenal sights. ” So true.

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