Category: startup
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B2B Marketers Getting Sandwiched
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They Were Too Big to Fail, Too!
While on my way back from the Equilibrium conference in Toronto which was a fabulous experience, and I’m gonna share more about it later, I stopped by Tim Hortons, Canada’s largest quick-service restaurant chain, looking for a vegan option. There was not a single vegan option on the menu. Later on at Toronto’s Pearson Airport,…
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Saying NO is courageous.
Yesterday at the IBM MassChallenge lunch I asked, “We in the startup community tend to talk a lot about how to get YES from investors, but getting a NO is equally important.” and as Rich Maloy well-said, the second most important thing you can hear from an investor is a NO. The consensus is that…
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Shahs of Angels
For the last few weeks I’m thinking about starting an angel network for Iranian immigrant founders in the US, supported by Iranian angels. Why? There’s no question about systemic bias in the world, everywhere, including “the land of free”. I immigrated to the US when I was close to 30, and started my first startup…
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Entrepreneurs Moving Beyond VCs
Carta and Brex! Thanks for your hospitality and for having us at today’s Yacht Party. It was great learning from other entrepreneurs’ journeys on a nice sunny breezy day while partying on a Biscayne sandbar with a dozen other yachts! Some lessons I learned: 1- underrepresented entrepreneurs’ journey is for sure harder than white Bay…
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Being Independent
Today, PositiveMed is celebrating its 7-year anniversary. Many thanks to all who helped us make health care a little more positive, independent and people-oriented, through publishing uplifting, informative and simple articles with millions of audience on social media. We live in a world, governed by the greed of corporations. Back in 2011 when we started…