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New Study by MPOWER Financing Shows the Value of Investing in Immigrants

Dream It

MPOWER students hail from 120 countries and are considerably more geographically diverse than the general international student mix in the U.S. Ninety-three percent of MPOWER female borrowers reported that they had no alternate means of financing their degree, versus 79 percent of MPOWER male borrowers. and Canada.

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7 Reasons You Don’t Want to Start a Business With Friends

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Of course, to solve this, you can look for professionals to add to your team, but what use are your friends then? Your Finances Will Be Quite Strained. With no actual influx of capital into your business, you’re looking at a dangerous mix of emotions, finances, and ego.

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4 Finance Lessons for Rookie Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Finance is a common source of both challenges and opportunities for a growing company. Learn these foundational finance lessons now to set yourself up for success: Avoid the sunk cost fallacy. For example, you might’ve chosen the wrong project management tool but continue to use it because you feel guilty about “wasting” money.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. originally raised $3 million in financing from some of the smartest people in the industry including Peter Chernin, Allen DeBevoise and Shari Redstone.

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The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Companies that embrace this new model, called interaction field companies, generate, facilitate and benefit from interactions and data exchanges among multiple people and groups—from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn’t expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators and even competitors. .

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. Adding a phone to that mix as the person paying seeing unnecessarily complicated, especially given the battery life issue. There are a lot of things I love about my Android phone--like the easy integration into the rest of my Google life.

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. What if you added funds to the mix? Access to other investors. But maybe you could do it?

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