VC Cafe

JUNE 12, 2016

to all the people that made this moment happen: the riders who participated in Techbikers, the corporate sponsors that believed in us and the hundreds (if not thousands) of donors who contributed to individual Techbiker’s fundraising campaigns since 2012. 9 libraries established in India, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2012

The concept and first implementation of modern microfinancing is generally credited to Dr. Mohammad Yunus who, back in the 1970s, began lending to impoverished women in Jobra, Bangladesh, while teaching economics at Chittagong University. He went on to found the aforementioned Grameen Bank (“Grameen” means “village” in Bengali).

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Transformify

JANUARY 21, 2020

Some freelance platforms offer mostly fixed price gigs like designing a logo, writing a guest blog post, optimizing a Facebook campaign, setting up a Google Ads account and the like. Another differentiating factor is the type of assignments each freelance platform is focused on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

So it should have been predictable that when Donald Trump kicked off his campaign for the presidency with race-baiting comments against Mexicans after a long campaign claiming that the first African-American president wasn’t born in the US that I would speak up. You should, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I have felt more connected and more bonded and increased my respect for those who have taken moral stands or have put in hours of work for the campaign. Liberia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Lithuania, Trinidad, Brazil, Kosovo, Slovenia, Denmark, Jamaica, South Korea, Norway, Poland & Croatia. So get over it.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

You don’t get to launch your campaign saying illegal Mexicans are “rapists and murderers and some, I assume, are good people.” This act was not only racist in and of itself but also gave air-cover to the most irrational conspiracy theorists and white supremacist groups in the United States. You don’t get to create a division between the 3.3

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

“You don’t get to launch your campaign saying illegal Mexicans are “rapists and murderers and some, I assume, are good people.” It’s a classic example of extreme misdirection, something that is woven through many of Trump’s mistakes and misdeeds. It’s the opposite of a leader who takes responsibility for his actions. ” (Suster).

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