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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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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Higher education. Calls are changing but not dying.

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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. marketing, finance, sales, etc.). marketing, finance, sales, etc.). Communication.

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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. DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Founders and investors circling the space suspect a wave of Silicon Valley interest is coming, however, and that it will alter the category entirely. In fact, new funds have launched there with expertise in the category. We had to explain that there was a very different way to create value in the marketing economy,” Robertson said.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. further down the sales funnel from CPC advertising where you pay for a click but still need to convert on your own).

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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

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If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm. Investment professionals tend to fall into the following categories: Not an investment partner. All of this, of course, is Sales 101. The third-pass is geography.

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