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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

Several years ago I made an appearance in a burgeoning new podcast called “20 Minute VC,” which by now needs no introduction. Other companies have only seen a slight decline and may be expecting demand to return to normalcy later in the year. The reality is that when unemployment sinks in demand is likely to get worse.

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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

TechCrunch LA

It’s coming from Leif , itself a startup that provides financing services to edtech platforms so that they can offer their students income share agreements (otherwise known as ISAs, arrangements where students are not required to pay back tuition loans until they find jobs). But that also speaks to potential opportunities.

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5 Reasons For Monetizing The Idle Resources Of Others

Startup Professionals Musings

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Community means more than supply and demand.

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The Sharing Economy Is Changing The Rules Of Business

Startup Professionals Musings

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Community means more than supply and demand.

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Interview with Rachelle Snyder and Ross Richmond, Coozie

socalTECH

We started with just a few tents, and saw an immediate consumer demand, and we've grown steadily from there. Ross Richmond: This summer, we decided to seek investment, so we could grow and meet the consumer demand we were seeing. We went out and started interviewing different VC funds, and loved the experience we had with Science.

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Be A Winning Entrepreneur In The New Sharing Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Community means more than supply and demand.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate.