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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. In addition, the 2015 CareerBuilder.com U.S. Job Forecast Study ranks sales jobs as the number one job employers are currently looking to fill, ranking 10% higher than technical positions. He co-authored “ Sales Recruiting 2.0:

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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own. These are some “smart and scrappy founders” he told me, keep an eye on them. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. We were able to invest!

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I’m Exited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own. These are some “smart and scrappy founders” he told me, keep an eye on them. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. We were able to invest!

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Entrepreneurs Share Their 2016 Resolutions

Up and Running

Do you feel ready to put 2015 in the past, or are you looking back on a year well spent? The gentleman who started CIC, and my instructor David Durovy, founder of The Post Institute, are interested in seeing if the book can be used locally and statewide to help the homeless start thinking about starting their own business!

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15 Female Entrepreneurs Share What Changes They Would Most Like to See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

In 2015, businesses owned by women brought in more than $1.5 I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). Female entrepreneurs and business owners are no longer taken with a grain of salt.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .