The group, established by Buyosphere CEO Tara Hunt, is a virtual braintrust of female tech industry leaders, featuring a healthy representation of start-up founders and tech entrepreneurs.
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In addition, some startups would split up with founders leaving the company.
But social cohesion, and the superb diffusion of powers set up by the Founders, make such a vision risible.
What would happen if every day founders got up and asked themselves three questions based on the math above?
The idea of CourseHorse came up when the two founders noticed that people were struggling to access local education like yoga and wine-tasting lessons.
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Wilson, co-founder of Gilt Groupe, currently leads the Gilt City division of the brand, which was once only an e-commerce website selling exclusively women coveted fashions by invitation, and is made up of 4 other founders: Alexis Maybank, Kevin Ryan, Mike Bryzek and Phong Nguyen.
In 2001 Skype's founders had set up Kazaa, an online file-sharing service that enabled people to download music from each other's computers to the great irritation of copyright holders.
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On the whole, women make up 10 percent of the founders of high-growth tech companies but manage to raise 70 percent less money than men because they cannot access capital, according to Lesa Mitchell, a department vice president at Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, as reported in the New York Times in June, 2012.
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Outside investors in Tiny Prints will be subject to a six-month lock-up on their SFLY shares, while the Tiny Prints founders will be subject to a staggered 18 month lock up.
Well, an organisation called Founders Forum has come up with a clever and amusing method.
Even talented, hardworking CEOs and founders can get caught up in the hype.
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If things do not go according to plan, company founders can quickly end up losing their voting rights and even their jobs.
Updated with company comments: Dropbox has made its first acquisition, snapping up collaboration start-up Cove as well as its founders, who formerly were executives at Facebook.
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Before giving up their old jobs, the founders of innocent, a British drinks firm formed in 1998, sold an initial batch of smoothies from a market stall in London.
Aubrey began taking absurd salaries and bonuses and ratcheting up his participation in the FWPP (Founders Well Participation Program).
It is a rare glimpse into the families of two founders and how the start up culture of Silicon Valley is often so close, so personal, and in this particular case, spectacularly nasty.
In fact, it was not until Feb. 19, 2011 that the co-founders agreed on how to divide up the equity.
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The founders of the United Nations set up a network of international institutions that would allow countries to work together for peace, Annan said.
The mall was initially headed by Dongguan native Alex Hu Guirong, who became a billionaire in the instant noodle business, and later sold to the Founders Group, a conglomerate set up by Peking University.
That process of searching the Internet for additional information is inefficient, at least according to David Rabie and Joe Sarafian, co-founders of a new App start-up called Draftpedia.
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For thousands of female founders across the country who are pairing up with friends, classmates and colleagues to pursue business ideas navigating the hyper-female team dynamic is a real issue for more businesses than ever before.
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She believes, however, that the responsibility of addressing the start-up funding gap lies both with potential investors and with founders themselves.
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In response to this, the Amber Trail Greenway was set up in 1996 by Krystyna Wolniakowski, one of the founders of the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe, and Bill Moody from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Ready2 works because of the founders' friendship, cemented when the two set up a fashion advice page for the Daily Telegraph in 1996.
And at TechStars, another incubator that operates across the U.S., the average age of the founders in its current crop is around 32, up from about 25 several years ago.
Does the Democratic Leadership Council--the centrist policy factory whose founders in 1985 included an Arkansas governor who later wound up in the White House--benefit mainly Democrats or the whole country?
Both founders and entrepreneurial employees prefer to build something from the ground up rather than join an existing company.
For example: Typing in Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) turns up a single page with a brief company history including pictures of the founders, a company profile, annual sales, employees, office phone numbers, executive's names, stock charts and recent news.
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