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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. I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC. In this short 90-second clip Jeff discusses “Investor / Market Fit” How VCs Think About Funding.

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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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The One Video Every Silicon Valley Investor Should Watch

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And of course he’s right. But it highlighted the misperceptions many people have had about serving urban markets. 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.

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Catching Up With Eli Portnoy, Sense360

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For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), Eli Portnoy: We started with food as our first category, and we have been very focused on it, specifically with quick server restaurants. Why it is that you've seen the most uptake in the food sector?

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What I’ve Learned from Fred Wilson

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While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. You need to invest in good markets and bad. That always stuck with me.

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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. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.