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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. He calls this “the secret of the market.”.

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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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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. The founders have started companies before. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”