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Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and StartupOS are once again uniting to present a remarkable pitch event hosted at the SVB Experience Center in the heart of San Francisco on February 27, 2024. This event is not just about entrepreneurship; it’s a celebration of diversity, innovation, and a tribute to #BlackHistoryMonth. Exclusively open to #earlystagestartups, this pitch competition aims to identify and support emerging founders from underrepresented groups, including Women, Black, or Latinx entrepreneurs, who are building companies with a meaningful impact. **Prize breakdown** Each of the top 5 startups will receive: $1,000 stipend towards your travel and accommodations Award of $4,000 Pitch Day in San Francisco, CA on February 27, 2024 **Day of the event** 1st Place = Additional $15k 2nd Place = Additional $12k 3rd Place = Additional $8k Winners will be announced on Wednesday, Feb 28th! **Eligibility Criteria** - Silicon Valley Bank and StartupOS sponsored Pitch Days are open exclusively to early-stage startup teams. Our pitch competition looks to discover and support emerging segments (Women, Black or Latinx) founders building impactful companies. - The startup must be in its #earlystage (pre-seed or seed) in external funding. - All members of the startup team must be 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. - The startup can target any sector or industry and should have a viable product or service (has potential for underlying IP as you scale) that is already venture-backed and/or venture backable. - Startups must be based and operating in the United States. - Startups must be incorporated to apply for the event. Tosh E. Susan Solinsky Anita Darden Gardyne Cheyne Stennis Kwame Ulmer Derek Banyard, MD, MS, MBA Equalize Startups Morag Grassie Michelle McQueen #equalize2024 Natalie Buford-Young Springboard Enterprises Colette Ellis Ayse McCracken Jessica Shepherd, MD, MBA, FACOG MedtechWOMEN WBL (Women Business Leaders of the US Health Care Industry Foundation) Women In Bio - Engage. Educate. Empower. Bakar Labs HITLAB Jerry Antimano Stan Kachnowski PHD MPA Kyle Kaniecki Judith Sheft Monika Athwal Pavita Howe

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and StartupOS are once again uniting to present a remarkable pitch event hosted at the SVB Experience Center in the heart of San Francisco on February 27, 2024. This event is not just about entrepreneurship; it’s a celebration of diversity, innovation, and a tribute to #BlackHistoryMonth. **Prize breakdown** Each of the top 5 startups will receive: $1,000 stipend towards your travel and accommodations Award of $4,000 Pitch Day in San Francisco, CA on February 27, 2024 **Day of the event** 1st Place = Additional $15k 2nd Place = Additional $12k 3rd Place = Additional $8k Winners will be announced on Wednesday, Feb 28th! **Eligibility Criteria** - Silicon Valley Bank and StartupOS sponsored Pitch Days are open exclusively to early-stage startup teams. Our pitch competition looks to discover and support emerging segments (Women, Black or Latinx) founders building impactful companies. - The startup must be in its #earlystage (pre-seed or seed) in external funding. - All members of the startup team must be 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. - The startup can target any sector or industry and should have a viable product or service (has potential for underlying IP as you scale) that is already venture-backed and/or venture backable. - Startups must be based and operating in the United States. - Startups must be incorporated to apply for the event. With thanks to Pooja Majmudar, PhD for the caption (thanks friend) Karen Toste Jeremy R. Lisa Hoover Sharon Marichalar Tni Newhoff Sara Wilson and so many more!!

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Excited to be highlighted as one of the Top 20 Thought Leaders to follow on LinkedIn in Dr. Andre Retterath DDVC Landscape 2024' 🚀! The 2024 DDVC Landscape is must-read for every VC! In comments👇 - where to find the 2024 DDVC Landscape report - how to support the launch on ProductHunt - how to join the community of 22,000 thought leaders and startup enthusiasts from firms like a16z, Index, Sequoia, and more

How to Handle Minority Co-Founder Losing Faith in You? StartupChallenges #CoFounderIssues #TrustInLeadership When your minority co-founder no longer has faith in you, it’s a challenging and emotionally charged situation that can impact the entire business. This issue isn’t uncommon, especially in the high-stakes environment of deep tech startups where engineering and R&D are core to the business. Here’s what you can do to navigate this difficult terrain: Understand Their Perspective 🎧 Listen Actively: Schedule a privat... Read more: https://lnkd.in/gvHfRZMJ

Is the value of patents a precise science? No. Each day we have more data on the value of patents though. With reliable data points we get closer and closer to precision.

In episode 714 of Startups For the Rest of Us, I answer listener questions including how to approach acquiring a competitor, how to find a developer co-founder, and how to navigate HIPAA compliance as a bootstrapper. Check out the rest of the episode 👇  https://lnkd.in/gCC2n56E

1947 VC ✨ Ever wonder what drives decisions in politics, business, and media? Must-read books for folks who truly want to understand how regulations work. Obvious in Hindsight and The Fixer by Bradley Tusk. Founder of Tusk Venture Partners - an early-stage VC firm that invests in startups operating in highly regulated markets. Bradley saved Uber and many other iconic companies from Politicians. The full episode will drop soon. #TheFixer #Politics #regulations

The golden rule: whomever has the gold makes the rules To the DefTech startups out there, how the money works can be bewildering. When I was building POMs in the Pentagon, I called it the Black Magic of the Puzzle Palace, because few knew the art and it was mysterious to most. In this week's drop, I try to cover two massive topics: where money comes from, where requirements come from, and how they relate. Check out the blog: https://lnkd.in/eGi5hXqZ

For any process, an important metric is lead time to production. Our current budgetary process means that for the vast majority of things we have around 5 years of extra wait time built in. We need to do some mixture of planning for these (unacceptably long) timelines and working aggressively to improve them.