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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

TechCrunch

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar

TechCrunch

All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the footprint of women founders and funders, has released its annual report for 2020. The networks made online — either through the rise of meme culture or Substack spice — can be a competitive advantage in the world of investment, as two new funds this week showed us.

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

ACA members and groups enjoy unprecedented education and networking opportunities, brought to them by the trusted authority in angel investing. ACA members and groups enjoy unprecedented education and networking opportunities, brought to them by the trusted authority in angel investing.

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How do you attract family offices and other large investors to your direct investing platform?

David Teten VC

Note that I specifically am excluding from this analysis the firms that help investors access investment funds, e.g., CAIS , Context365 , iCapital Network , OurCrowd , Palico , PrimeAlpha , Trusted Insight. Elite networks. Suggestion: make very public your red lines as to who can participate in the network, at what level.

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Startup Fundraising that Meets Investor Expectations

American Entrepreneurship

That includes angel investors, venture capitalists, and institutional funders associated with various stages of a startup’s growth. The funders look for many ways to qualify with whom they are investing, but time is often the critical element that shows if the entrepreneurs are up to the challenges they seek.

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Third Rock Ventures Invests in Internships for Underrepresented Groups in Life Sciences

American Entrepreneurship

By gaining real world experience and exposing these college students to potential future employers, the program moves LSC’s mission forward to “disrupt the cycle of poverty and inequality”. An alumni network is being established to support students’ post-internship and into their first full-time jobs.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it. Evaluate the impact of these efforts, including increased access to capital, on stabilizing local entrepreneurs and small businesses across all demographics and geographic areas. Additionally, with crisis comes opportunity. The time for action is now.