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Female Entrepreneurs, AI and Investing: A Chat With Meredith Finn, March Capital

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Earlier this month, the annual Montgomery Summit conference was held in Santa Monica, including a special portion of the conference dedicated to the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur. We had over 400 attendees, including some who came from the core conference. It's a great event. You can't be the best at everything.

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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

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His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Once you have achieved some success as an idea person who has implemented a business, you can broaden your positive impact by mentoring and coaching other aspiring entrepreneurs, supporting worthy causes, writing a book, and speaking at leadership conferences.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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It’s not that they’re particularly negative but the fact is that supporting roles at investment firms are designed to show the partners the risks in deals and the “upside case” always requires huge assumptions to be believed. I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. Wait, there’s more!

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. and Schlumberger. Make it Simple to Manage Business Or Close Deals.

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Interview: Seth Epstein of SocialStay

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Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Great design/ user experience carries more and more weight these days and I have been lucky to touch some of the world’s most visible brands. It drives revenue & engages guests."

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

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Having the pitches and showcase as part of the conference is a nice feature for the startups, so the whole thing isn’t just about the pitch. THE SANDBOX is a coworking space that comes with its own Airstream conference room. They created a space where you can follow your dreams. iFundWomen (New York, NY).

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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We are judging how well you are coached on stage. They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also help to make bad companies look good. ” I love businesses that don’t lend themselves well to VC Panels at conferences or Demo Days. I don’t think they serve investors well.