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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend.

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Q&A with EO’s 2017 Global Citizen of the Year: Cameron Madill

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Each year since 2013, EO recognizes one outstanding member who embodies the heart and soul of volunteerism, and who paves the way for others to follow, through its EO Global Citizen of the Year Award. I’ve applied a lot of the techniques I’ve learned from these experiences to both our B Corp community and our refugee work.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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Local Food Systems and Kitchen Incubators

EntreWorks Consulting

Local food systems development has been a hot topic in community development circles for some time now. These efforts typically use agriculture and food development as tools to advance community economic development and to improve community health outcomes. Local Food Systems and Kitchen Incubators. EntreWorks Blog.

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Parthean cares about personal finance so you don’t have to

TechCrunch

First, he said that education is the most high-leverage way to make an impact on an individual, community and world. The startup also recently graduated from the Pear accelerator , a program put together by the 2013-founded seed-stage venture firm. Is success defined by saving someone money three months after using the service?

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Sendbird raises $100M at a $1B+ valuation, says 150M+ users now interact using its chat and video APIs

TechCrunch

Sendbird , a popular provider of chat, video and other interactive services to the likes of Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, Delivery Hero and hundreds of others by way of a few lines of code, has closed a round of $100 million, money that it plans to use to continue expanding the functionalities of its platform to meet our changing interactive times.

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How to Grow Your Startup to $1,000,000 ARR

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Unwavering Customer Focus When building LearnDash, I knew that to build something of value, something that users would love and stick to, I had to listen to the people using it. By relentlessly focusing on our customers, we didn’t just create a product; we built a community of loyal users who believed in what we were doing.

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