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Why Female Founder Office Hours is So Important

Both Sides of the Table

Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!” Of the 106 judges who preceded her 105 of them were men (Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman). 8% of VC partnerships, for example).

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Raising Seed Capital Now: 10 Tips

Tech Coast Venture Network

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. “Most have a strong desire to mentor and help build companies.”

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking. Rob Maigret.