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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. After being largely ignored by Valley investors (the biggest checks in her seed, Series A, and Series B came from men on the East Coast), she finally found support from the VC elite. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

Anyone can build a coworking space, but it''s a lot harder to attract and curate a set of folks that makes me want to move into that space. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. and figure out how to support them.

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The Heretic

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

This kind of employee, and we have all seen this up close, is negative about the Company and disses the management, coworkers, the board, the strategy, the workplace, and everything else under the sun.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating.

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A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

As of 2019, Singapore had over $19 billion in PE and VC assets under management, more than twice that of neighboring Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand combined. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem.

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Daily Crunch: Reddit users discover Apple is raising its battery replacement service fees

TechCrunch

Startups and VC. Meanwhile, Nvidia’s robot simulator adds human coworkers and Nvidia upgrades GeForce Now with RTX 4080 performance for premium users. Can co-CEOs work? If you’re a company with two founders looking for that advice, Becca and Darrell have a good Found podcast for you. Amanda writes.

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Cheat Codes for Raising Capital from Venture Capitalists

David Teten VC

One or more of our past coworkers are joining us in this new business, and working for sweat equity.”. If we meet you over a period of a month, we’ll notice what happens during that month. We hired a coach to help make us a world-class team.” . One of our past colleagues / managers is investing.”. “We

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