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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

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Entity uses all this to curate not just what courses it provides and what goes into the curriculum, but also how best to supplement that learning. Today, Entity courses also include targeted mentoring from people working in the tech industry, as well as career coaching en route to finding a job.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Each VC raises money – say $90 million.

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Entrepreneurs Should Create A Degree – Not Buy One Off The Rack

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To my surprise, when I told the Dean that I was learning nothing from the Core courses, he simply asked me what I wanted to take. When trying to cobble together a startup degree, consider the following categories of classes. This list is intended to cover non-obvious courses relevant to entrepreneurs. Communication.

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The One Video Every Silicon Valley Investor Should Watch

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And of course he’s right. And of course African Americas and Latinos over-index in spend and consumption in many categories including many health & beauty products, movie theater attendance, mobile phone usage and even social media. ” – Earvin Magic Johnson. And we shouldn’t deny it.

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When Hiring Entrepreneurs, Ignore Their Resumes

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When you are interviewing candidates during the early stages of your startup, who is far more important than what, because the tasks the candidate previously performed may only be partially applicable to the role they will play at your adVenture. One or two failures spread over the course of an extensive career are not relevant.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. OTHER DEALS: 1. Competitors: Knewton.

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AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M

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To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview. One big new category for us is data and targeting. There are many other things I can''t yet talk about of course, but you will see lots of big news over the next couple of quarters. READ MORE>>.

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