Four years ago, Arlan Hamilton was living out of a hotel room that she shared with her mom. At that point, she had given up a career as a live music production coordinator to become a venture capitalist. Her goal? Raise a fund that invests in companies founded by underrepresented entrepreneurs, including women, people of color, LGBTQ company founders, or any combination of the three. Read more>>
Dental care can be costly and hard to access, especially if you live in a rural community or a third-world country. In fact, the biggest barrier to dental care is cost. This is according to the American Dental Association, which says many rural areas lack access to dental professionals. Read more>>
Technology changes the way we live — and it also changes us. Sticking with the telephone as an illustration, something quite remarkable has happened in the past 40 years, the approximate timespan between the rotary and the smartphone. The old machines belonged to the household and shared with families. Smartphones, on the other hand, are personal. People don’t share their smartphones. What is that? Read More>>
Women now make up 40% of new entrepreneurs in the United States, the largest percentage since 1996. iFundWomen, a fundraising ecosystem for female entrepreneurs, gives women a space to bring dynamic innovations to life. One year later, iFundWomen helped hundreds of budding businesses get funded and learned many lessons along the way. Read More>>
Whether the frenzy of initial coin offerings that swept the globe last year was a temporary phenomenon or the start of a lasting revolution, the bottom line is that the bottom line was huge. A new report from the Crypto Valley Association and consulting firm PwC Strategy& notes that through the end of November, there were 430 ICOs worldwide, up from 2 in 2013. Those ICOs raised a collective $4.6 billion. Read More>>
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