Had a great time with the team at Bloom & Wild this week discussing empathy, privilege and inclus
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September 24 · Issue #117 · View online
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Had a great time with the team at Bloom & Wild this week discussing empathy, privilege and inclusive work environments. Also spent time celebrating 23 Code Streets 2nd birthday (it was wonderful). Looking forward to attending the Entrepreneur First Demo Day as well as the Geovation Hub Autumn Showcase.
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Lovely time speaking to the crew at Bloom & Wild
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This female CEO is buying back her company from VC investors
Jessica Rovello and her cofounder and husband Kenny Rosenblatt is taking back Arkadium into their own hands. A Real OG
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Cluep, a Canadian startup that raised just $500K, acquired for $40M
More and more of these stories are getting reported now. I wonder if this is a new trend or whether it is now newsworthy?
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Invisible unicorns: 35 big companies that started with little or no money
From MailChimp to Tough Mudder. Check out these stories.
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Women on Cap Tables – Henry Ward
“When I started Carta I didn’t focus on diversity because I was worrying about staying alive. Then we hit our growth phase and went from 20 employees to 400 in 48 months.
I assumed diversity would happen on its own. Of course it didn’t. I didn’t realize how much deliberate focus it takes. I do now.” That is a pretty typical story.
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Future Founders, Here’s How to Spot and Build in Nonobvious Markets | First Round Review
Nonobvious markets can lead to hypergrowth, but they’re hard to spot in the moment. Leaning on his experience as a seasoned investor and operator, Elad Gil shares four principles to help uncover the three types of opportunities that others are overlooking.
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VCs say Silicon Valley isn’t the gold mine it used to be
Has Silicon Valley peaked?
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Debut Fund is the largest Black-led VC fund to date
Base10 Partners is founded by the Nigerian Spaniard, Adeyemi Ajoa and his partner TJ Nahigian
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JPMorgan to invest millions in 'inclusive cities'
JPMorgan Chase announced its Advancing Cities programme to spread economic opportunity in cities in the United States and across the world.
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raceAhead: New Nielsen Report Shows the Power of The Black Consumer | Fortune
Black consumers are digitally savvy and influential and are on track to have a buying power of $1.54 trillion by 2022.
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Google AI Blog: Introducing the Inclusive Images Competition
While Google is focusing on building even more representative datasets, we also want to encourage additional research in the field around ways that machine learning methods can be more robust and inclusive when learning from imperfect data sources.
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John Legend just became the first black man to EGOT
John Legend has become the first Black man to EGOT (to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award).
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