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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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Episode 92: Educational and Galactic Profitability with Dr. Zarik Boghossian

Mike Michalowicz

Today Dr.Zarik Boghossian shares his personal story of being born in Iran and moving to the US, the hardships he faced because of his accent, having no money and how he moved on to successfully develop a software that does the flight navigation for the international space station. Also Available On. Show Summary.

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Weekly #Firgun Newsletter – August 8 2024

VC Cafe

In Israel, the week’s news was mostly focused on the expectation from an impending attack by Iran and its proxies. tech #Israel #venturecapital #innovation #startups #founders Answer – the lady with the blue background is real. We must #BRINGTHEMHOME NOW. on your $75M series D and $1.5 Thank you for reading.

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

Both Sides of the Table

It isn’t simply that when a leader in the US calls off negotiations with Iran he puts it on Twitter or when a leader from Iran rebuffs that Tweet publicly that a signal is created but it is the unseen. We co-led the A-round with IA Ventures. Not so DataSift. We knew we had a winner. ” Steve.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif., Car owners on RelayRides make on average about $250 a month, says founder Shelby Clark. Ad Choices.

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5 Startup Tips From Successful Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Syed Balkhi, Founder of WPBeginner, Optinmonster. Sara Mohammadi, Co-Founder of Eventbox. She helms Eventbox, an online platform for events based in Iran. The venture now hosts regular TEDx events in Iran. ” Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group. Like Musk, Sara Mohammadi is a doer. Go out there.”

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

What we’ve seen in digital…’A mashup co-creation, mass customised society’… we will inevitably see in retail…. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. They’re happy to facilitate revolution in Moldova, Iran, Egypt and Libya. The retailers that survive anyway. Make a call and have a view.

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