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5 Tips to Gain From People Who Don’t Think Like You

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as a business advisor, that’s probably the biggest hurdle to success encountered by every new business owner. You have to manage your business with more people not like you, as well as a more diverse set of customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/06/2019.

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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Drivenets is aiming high, with the strategic objective of creating infrastructure for managing a huge portion of global data in the coming decades. This company has received multiple awards, including Cyber Security Excellence Awards Winner for 2019, Cyber Defense Global Awards 2019 Winner, and SC 2019 Awards Finalist.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Help Or Hurt Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Your role in business is to manage the transition where humans and machines will productively co-exist to keep human customers satisfied. This doesn’t require any great technical acumen, just vigilant attention to values and rights. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/07/2019. Individual biases must be excluded.

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

David Teten

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials: Afterword (by Bob Campbell)

Austin Startup

19, 2019: I first met Brett Hurt over 25 years ago. He was completing his undergraduate studies with a major in Management Information Systems at the University of Texas and was aspiring to a management consulting position. I had the good fortune of being asked by Brett to serve as an advisor to data.world and readily accepted.

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Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women & underrepresented founders?

David Teten

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital , reports that “37% of our portfolio companies would be considered ‘impact’ qualified companies. For example, more women report being asked during their presentations to establish that they understand basic technical knowledge.

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Support Your Fellow Entrepreneurs, Vote in SXSW 2020 Panel Pickers!

Austin Startup

SXSW 2019, “ GovCity Showcase ”. In this session, we will walk through the 2019 Landscape and our method of inclusion/classification. We will cover changes to this Landscape and present findings on which segments of EdTech are under the greatest pressure to change, and which are likely to have growth in 2019.