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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. Not only will this impact how you design the product, but also where you distribute it, and how you market it.

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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. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. That’s the good news.