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Share the mindset of success in EO Accelerator

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2013, Allen went into business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2013, Allen went into business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. EO staff member Cydney Melton asked Emma about her experience. She quickly realized it was a difficult place for her to succeed, since she built her network roots in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Fund Investing Versus Fund Management

Haystack

That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. Over the years, that check size grew slowly to $50K, then a few $100Ks, and I followed-on into a few at the $250K level, with two outsized pile-ins at $400K and $600K total exposure, respectively. Fund investing is easy — fund management is not.

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Building a Groundbreaking Platform for Mental Health Support With Passion and Purpose

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A last-minute trip to drop my wife off at her internship in October 2013 led to the brightest idea I’ve had so far as an entreprener. A last-minute trip to drop my wife off at her internship in October 2013 led to the brightest idea I’ve had so far as an entreprener. I heard things take time. Here’s how it went.

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Why Seed Funds Have Scaled

Haystack

Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013. 2M per firm, funds may want to grow so they can keep co-investing with their peer group. Here, I wanted to step back and consider “why” this has happened from my vantage point.

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Thankful.ai’s McDermott has Expert Tips for Starting a Career in Tech Sales

Jason Malki

But, once I got an inside look at how technology companies operate, and the types of culture they foster, I was hooked. In 2013, I moved to San Francisco and was thrown right into the thick of the tech scene. I always want to win, whether that’s out-performing the competition or my peers, or beating a benchmark I’ve set for myself.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. Reports indicate they secured 83% more funding than the previous year, primarily attributed to the record-setting $329 billion U.S.

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The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

This is going to be BIG.

If you’ve ever run a large group of people, you know that culture change isn’t done at the podium. Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. No, I mean, she actually wants to do the job. It’s not a platform for her to promote any experiments. It’s not something she’s doing because that’s the next logical step in a political ladder.

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