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What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

In 30-90 seconds you can use visuals, story-telling, music, stats and humor to get across your message. They were cute videos that often had animation and humor mixed with tech speak. Here’s a short video we did of our 2015 Upfront Summit : We also shot this one last year to highlight some of our portfolio companies.

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Startup Recruiting Hacks

This is going to be BIG.

When you're doing RSVPs, use a tool like Eventbrite that allows you to collect more information from each attendee--like what languages they develop in, how many years experience they have, current company, LinkedIn, blog, Twitter, etc. Public relations shouldn't just be used to source prospects or biz dev partners, but candidates as well.

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Cameroon’s Ejara raises $2M to offer crypto and investment services in Francophone Africa

TechCrunch

While countries with currently unstable currencies like the naira are seeing immense usage, other regions using the CFA franc have sparse adoption. A region of more than 200 million people using the CFA franc, Francophone Africa is one of the most crypto-friendly markets in Africa. So it stayed on my mind.” ” .

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Q&A with EO’s 2017 Global Citizen of the Year: Cameron Madill

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I’m involved in scaling a non-profit called The Innovation Law Lab that uses technology, process optimization and data to provide pro bono legal representation at far greater scale and effectiveness than traditional methods. Past winners of EO’s Global Citizen Award include Manny Padda in 2016 and Sri Bharatam in 2015.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend.

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Strapi lands $31M for its ‘headless’ CMS platform

TechCrunch

Annoyed by the limitations of traditional frameworks and CMSes, many of which weren’t developed with mobile websites in mind, they decided to create their own solution, Strapi, to use for clients’ projects. Burgy, Georget, and Laurie published Strapi on GitHub in 2015. Strapi’s content management dashboard.

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Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

The company was part of a Y Combinator cohort in 2015.). And while most of its growth to date has been organic, it will be using some of the funding potentially to bring some inorganic growth into the mix. ” Another area where it would like to use investment is to bring more technological innovations into the Go1 platform.