Cindy Gallop: NYC Startup Scene & Funding for Women

I interviewed Cindy Gallop, IfWeRanTheWorld @WITI Summit.  She spoke about the New York startup scene & funding for women.  She also gave a great tip for those pitching for investment.

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Herve Lebret: Difference in European and US Venture Capitalists

Video interview with Hervé Lebret.  Hervé manages the Innogrants @ EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), a program supporting startup creation. The program includes grants to entrepreneurs and conferences where role models share their entrepreneurial experience with students and researchers. From 1997 to 2004, he was with Index Ventures, the pan-European venture capital firm which invested in Skype, mysql, Virata, Addex, Genmab. He began his career in academia in electrical engineering and applied mathematics at ENSTA and ONERA (Paris). He is also the author of the book “Start-Up, what we may still learn from Silicon Valley” . Hervé Lebret is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Université de Rennes. You can find Herve @ his blog & on Twitter @hlebret

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