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My Advice To Entrepreneurs: Consider Canada For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. With some of the top technical universities in the world, including the University of Toronto, the University of BC and McGill and Waterloo, Canada offers an enormous amount of tech talent without the cutthroat competitiveness of Silicon Valley. The Quality of Life is Superior.

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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 Biggest Business Fails of 2014 and How to Avoid Them

Up and Running

The scandal over Tinder CEO Sean Rad and CMO Justin Mateen sexually harassing fellow cofounder Whitney Wolfe ended in a million dollar settlement and horrible publicity for the company. ” Many of Mateen’s sexist and racist text messages to Wolfe were made public as a result of the trial. Exposing weaknesses, showing biases.

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Opportunity Hub Partners with Capital Factory To Bridge Opportunity Gap

Austin Startup

Pre-swag surf group photo of HBCU@SXSW students and Spike Lee at Capital One House Over the past several years, tech communities across the United States have attempted to make significant progress towards increasing diversity and inclusion in their industries.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. According to the USPTO, “A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.” The nonprovisional patent (full patent).

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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. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. For good reason: A tiny country of only 8 million people — 0.1%

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Thanksgiving is a big holiday in the United States and traditionally, most families make a turkey for dinner. Stop looking for cofounders and help them find you instead | The Startup Toolkit Blog - [link]. Don’t roadblock – Make it dead-simple for your advisor to help you | QUIBB - [link]. Entrepreneurshit.