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Feedback To Female Entrepreneurs Often Has Gender Bias Baked In

The Horizons Tracker

These products also had lower rates of venture funding and fewer users. At the end of the day, the reason most of these platforms are dominated by men is because all the venture capitalists and engineers and other founders are mostly men,” the researchers conclude. “If Possible cause.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business Review

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. At an even higher level, Blast IQ helps a less experienced engineer move up the learning curve much faster than in the days when one learned strictly by trial and error.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Dinesh Seemakurty, a bio-medical engineering student at University of Southern California was visiting India. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. “I’m a living and smiling example of life after cancer,” she says.

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A New CEO's Reinvention Road Map

Harvard Business Review

We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500. Engineer organizational breakdowns. Audit the organization. Create urgency and discuss the undiscussable. Harness contention.

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Don’t Move to Silicon Valley Without Preparation

Harvard Business Review

You have no funding, but you have to convince some engineer who’s already juggling 15 job offers (including offers from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google) to join you to help finish your product. Is this engineer going to accept your job offer? Beyond equity, you have two things to rely on: vision and personal charisma.

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Three Questions to Consider Before Deciding Where to Locate Your Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

You’ll not only find customers and employees more easily, you’ll likely find funding as well. For DC’s cybersecurity entrepreneurs, venture funds like In-Q-Tel & CORE Capital have emerged to fund such endeavors. From engineer to call center employee, people loved being at Zappos.