Ivy Startup Conference Positively Celebrates Diversity

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Ivy League Powered Invite-Only Startup Event Premieres in November

We interview Cheryl A. Robinson of Ready2Roar LLC on her upcoming Ivy Startup Conference
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Always great to see another startup event creating community within a given startup ecosystem.This time, an organizer is putting up 12 selected startups from the Ivy League schools to pitch to investors in New York. The inaugural event called the Ivy Startup Conference, which will be held on November 9th, is invite only and will start to create community not only with some elite private schools in the U.S. but also celebrates female founders and investors who will make up a fair percentage of the attendees and especially the investor panel. We talk with co-founder/serial entrepreneur Cheryl A. Robinson who also wrote a great piece last week for Nerd Stalker on her journey to create this event called Exclusive Yet Inclusive - Insight from a Female Entrepreneur. Cheryl explains below her vision for inclusiveness at this conference celebrates the strides women are making in the investment community.



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