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Women Designers Share Stories For The Next Generation
“Stories are currency,” shared Elle Luna, Senior Communication Designer at IDEO at the Women in Design event on Friday, December 9th at 500 Startups. If that’s the case, the speakers at this event...
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Designer Founders Book Sneak Preview: Scott and Matias of Behance
Last week we interviewed Scott Belsky and Matias Corea, the founders of Behance and the 99% Conference, for the Designer Founders Book. Scott left his job at Goldman Sachs and Matias was freelancing...
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Collaborating with Craig Mod of PRE/POST to publish the Designer Founders Book
The Designer Founders Book project is excited to announce that Pre/Post, led by Craig Mod, will be collaborating as a publisher to help produce and distribute our book worldwide to students. Craig...
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A Quest for Meaning
Mean·ing·ful - Adjective: Having a serious, important, or useful quality. In 2005, I was working at CBS designing prime time show websites. The job paid well, the people were great, and the work was...
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Designer Fair v2 Recap
The Stanford dschool graciously hosted our second ever Designer Fair (@designerfair) as part of entrepreneurship week. Studio one was jam packed with demo tables ranging from designers looking for...
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Why we love Neighborland
As a young organization, The Designer Fund continues to refine and iterate how we execute our mission: investing in designers who build companies with positive social impact. One component of our...
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Don’t Forget the F in BFF – Backing our Friends from Brooklyn Beta
We’re excited to announce our commitment to sponsor Brooklyn Beta again this year. We’re saving our lunch money to help back their Conference and new Summer Camp program (consider applying by this...
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Launchpad Toys empowers kids to create, express & share ideas
One of the domains we’re excited about investing in is education. It’s an area where innovation, especially with mobile technology, has the potential to produce inherent good for our society. Take a...
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Kickstart energy in your neighborhood with Solar Mosaic
As we mentioned in our previous post about Neighborland, the mission of the Designer Fund continues to evolve as we invest in designers who build companies with positive social impact. And, as...
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One Last Flyby
The following is a note I posted to friends at Facebook last Thursday - Last December I began a sabbatical after 5 years at Facebook. I’ve had a wealth of experiences, learnings, and roles here and...
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