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Female Entrepreneurs Still Suffer From Implicit Bias

The Horizons Tracker

Unfair scrutiny The unique aspect of the study lies in its analysis of the on-air dynamics between the entrepreneurs and the panel of celebrity venture capitalists known as the Sharks.

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Six Easy Ways To Raise Capital For Your Business

Strategy Driven

The bond between your loved ones is very strong, and even if you don’t have a very good business plan, you can still raise money from your family. Or Venture Capitalists. Similar to your close friends, your family members and relatives can be an entrepreneur’s first point of contact for raising capital.

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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has written, you need to have a balance of both “bonding capital” and “bridging capital” — i.e., relationships based respectively on your commonalities (bonding) and relationships built across differences (bridging).

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Are You Stuck in a Girls' Club?

Harvard Business Review

A male venture capitalist said, "You two have to meet." Once on the phone with his referral, after several minutes of trying to find points of mutual interest, they finally ended up bonding over the guy who introduced them: "Do you think he introduced us because we are the only two women tech CEOs he knows?"

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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business Review

At Uber, the idea for the business has been portrayed as this stroke of ingenuity, but I learned it was actually inspired by a product placement in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. How could venture capitalists assess that risk to decide whether to invest? The irony is many VCs just passed on them.

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99% of Networking Is a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

As venture capitalist and entrepreneur Rich Stromback told me in a series of interviews, “Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. Curiously, research I read years ago suggests that you build a stronger bond over time with someone who doesn’t like you immediately compared to someone who does.

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Why Companies Should Add Class to Their Diversity Discussions

Harvard Business Review

Vance has received huge attention for his book Hillbilly Elegy , chronicling his time as a venture capitalist who grew up in rural Ohio, and the difficulties his background presented. Just ask professionals who grew up in blue-collar households — people scholars call “ class migrants.”

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