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UK-based women’s networking and private club, AllBright, raises $18.8 million as it expands into the US

TechCrunch LA

Coupled with the launch of a new networking application called AllBright Connect and the company’s AllBright Magazine, the women’s networking organization is on a full-on media blitz. The company said that the new facilities would be opening in the coming months.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. People proclaimed that there was a “new economy” and “the old rules didn’t apply” and if you questioned it you “just didn’t get it.”

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in.

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The Loneliness of Success that Nobody Talks About

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I felt this myself as we went from a few founders huddled into a tiny room to the front page of the Financial Times, an influx of VC interest, magazine covers, invitations to high-profile events and the pressures of trying to live up to this perception and the economic opportunities everybody expected. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors.

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

InfoChachkie

These were sports that you taught yourself by watching others, and just pushed yourself to progress for fun, with no coach or parent influencing you. I love that there are no coaches, and kids learn how to learn by teaching themselves. I assume you become his mentor? This was an inspiration to me. In a class by himself.

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Female Founders and CEOs | Talia Goldstein of Three Day Rule

Tech Zulu Event

We began doing singles events, matchmaking, and date coaching. It was as if they were reading a Cosmo magazine to see what we were talking about. For a female entering this world you have to get mentors, ask people to coffee. , Val and I started this single’s website/blog just for fun and on the side. What’s next?