Hints and tips:
...Megan Lightcap, an investor with a VC firm called Slow Ventures, she leads their investments in the creator economy....
...Major Food opened six restaurants in the Miami area in 2021, one of which is a members-only club with a lounge that sold out in four months....
...Jianpu’s Beijing headquarters have glass walls, greenery, table football, dart board, martial arts dummy, treadmills, and brainstorming lounge....
...Our prize goes though to Marvyn Halfon, founder of Folio, who sneaked into the FT Investor Lounge by borrowing a pink volunteer t-shirt in order to pitch us on his social savings app....
...“The networking opportunities have exceeded my expectations; from alumni and VCs to other entrepreneurs with whom we’d never have got that first meeting without the Wharton name.”...
...They make the lecture halls that host these events look like chaotic airport departure lounges during Thanksgiving. The non-traditionalists....
...“It has been a true success, just not in the way that I had expected,” Layfield said, noting that in trying to avoid the traditional venture capitalist (VC) route he has actually become a VC himself....
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