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Black Founders hosted a PitchParty in San Francisco last week.  Crosswalk won the competition. Pitches by Cheryl Contee, Attentive.ly; Joel Cheuoua, Symbyoz; Patrick Jackson, Crosswalk; Jabari Martin, Tagive; Clarence Nathaniel, Netwirth; Charles Van Norman, Hactus; Julie Ko, SurePod; Eoin McMillan, Picture.ly.  Thanks again to the investors who attended as judges for their generous feedback to the entrepreneurs Gwen Edwards, Golden Seeds; Nancy Pfund, DBL Investors, Bryce Roberts, OATV & Cameron Lester, Azure Capital Partners. For further  [ Read More ]

Salman Khan is the founder & faculty of the Khan Academy a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world class education to anyone, anywhere.  It now consists of self paced software & with over 1m unique students per month, the most used educational video repository on the Internet (over 30m lessons delivered to date).  All 2000+ video tutorials, covering everything from basic addition to advanced calculus, physics,  [ Read More ]

Techcrunch recently posted an article ‘Silicon Valley: You and Some of your VC’s Have a Gender Problem‘ by Vivek Wadhwa which has certainly stirred up the entrepreneurial community.  I responded in the comments: Pemo Theodore – February 10th, 2010 at 11:53 am UTC:  I recently pitched for a Seattle dating site at TheFunded.com Showcase and noted that I was the only woman and older person amongst a gaggle of young  [ Read More ]