Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 16, 2021

Through storytelling, entrepreneurs can share their experiences and the impact their organizations have on the community. With these strategic tools in mind, the YLAI Network interviewed 2021 YLAI Fellow Nathalie Cervantes to gain greater insight into how small businesses have made the pivot from in-person to online operations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Sam Parr, founder of HubSpot-acquired newsletter and media brand The Hustle, doesn’t watch “Succession” because “it’s too real” (and because he prefers watching comedy compared to behemoth business billionaires fighting). And as SVB’s meltdown showed tech , a strong network can be a way of survival.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. I love to watch networks evolve, see how crowds gather and communicate and curate and share. The “half life” was very short. Will that continue? I have no idea.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2023

million Seed funding round for WeGoWhere , a Thailand -based social networking platform committed to enhancing offline social interactions. This Thailand-based platform has quickly amassed a vibrant community of over 300,000 users. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. Summer International’s live commerce distribution network helps it understand what brands and products consumers from different parts of Southeast Asia want to buy.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. It says so right on their website.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 17, 2019

But given all these imperfections in the media landscape, how do we encourage good daily habits? The answer is media literacy education. Media literacy education is not new, but the recent intensified interest in building up these essential skills has cast light on some holes in traditional approaches. government.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In fact, the San Francisco-based company started out in solutions-based journalism, providing content around communities and people who wanted to drive outcomes. Instead, Countable is taking a cue from the positives of social media to build technology that nurtures more authentic communication and facilitates business and social outcomes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Financed by private investors, and media conglomerate Vivendi, the company declined to disclose its total capital raised to date. The platform, produced by Vivendi, includes documentaries, podcasts, articles and interviews between experts and known players in the chess community. Kasparovchess is significantly more expensive.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Launching today in beta, Playground is a social platform that seeks to help people discover and develop community while empowering creators to monetize their audience. For now, the beta is open to select creators in the cultural space (art, music, wellness, gaming, and more), and for community members, there’s a waitlist.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 24, 2023

Through working with partners, MPA aims to anchor more Marinetech startups in Singapore to develop, test, and commercialize new products and services from Singapore to benefit the global maritime community.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners is thrilled to announce the upcoming Feed the Founders networking event, scheduled for Thursday, March 21, 2024, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Feed the Founders is a monthly networking event designed for entrepreneurs who are building businesses based on novel innovations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Is it community, or is it capitalism? It’s a question atop my mind everytime I see a community-focused startup launch with a parade of party rounds, twitter threads and links to a free Discord you can join with other like-minded fintech lovers. Community is the new AI. “As And he, respectfully, disagrees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Mighty Networks , a platform designed to give creators and brands a dedicated place to start and grow communities, has closed on $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Owl Ventures. The investment brings Palo Alto-based Mighty Networks’ total raised since its 2017 inception to $67 million. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from their traditionally offline practices into a digital present and future. Cotorruelo said in an interview, referring to the the courses, but also the company’s community of users.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So organic community-building looks like a work in progress. Why focus on short-form audio as a social media medium? “We raised $3M in late 2020. While in the testing phase, we had very high interest and attention from investors. Although it only beta launched in May 2021 so it is still early days.

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Source Link

MAY 5, 2021

During our March Quarterly Conversation, affiliates discussed the challenges moving from individual entrepreneur support organizations to a collaborative, community-based model. Denisse Rodriguez from Colmena66 has found one of the best ways to foster relationships in your network is to hold resource partner meetups.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

In an era where an endless number of apps, news stories, social media posts, and products are all competing for attention, it can be difficult to distinguish yourself from the crowd. Understand your audience and educate your community. Many YLAI Network members use their business to make an impact on a cause they are passionate about.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

I was speaking at Internet Week yesterday on networking and so I wanted to gather some of my thoughts. I've been very lucky over the last six years of being involved in the NYC innovation community to meet some fantastic folks. These people are bad for you, bad for your network, and take steps to avoid them is a net positive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A branded podcast is a podcast produced by a company to increase brand awareness, generate leads, create thought leadership and grow an active user community. Moreover, podcast guests often share the podcast and website with their own network, expanding the company’s reach and visibility to potential new leads.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. Others, meanwhile, were older and entering menopause, and were in search of community.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

She holds widely attended community events and educational programming that connect women-run VCs and startups in Los Angeles — all from her home-headquarters in Venice Beach. From that point forward, I knew that my life would be about building community and providing tools for communities to really shine. The alphaa.io

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

million that it could use to build a decentralized hiring community for web3 talent. Talents earn Outdefine’s crypto token for referring some friends, finding work, and contributing to the community. Talents earn Outdefine’s crypto token for referring friends, finding work, and contributing to the community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A unique angle is critical — and with the rapid growth of podcasts as a media form built for communities, going niche and specific is key. What’s more: a steady flow of episodes started to fuel content for social media accounts. Building a learned community Nothing beats honest intellectual conversations.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Of all the online innovations from the past 20 years, it is undeniable that the rise of social media is one of the biggest and most influential. The likes of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have billions of users among them, and even those of us who aren’t actively using any social networks understand what they are and how they function.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Register Docquity , Southeast Asia’s largest community of healthcare professionals , announced that it has raised $44 million in total in its Series C financing round, anchored by Japan’s Itochu Corporation. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 19, 2020

Rosario Diaz Garavito, the founder of The Millennials Movement , didn’t look to be labeled as an entrepreneur and a leader in her community when she began her small social media movement promoting youth volunteerism in 2013. By Jewelle Saunders. She was just focused on doing the work. government.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Roychowdhury told TechCrunch that after his father’s experience, he and his co-founders, Amit Vithal and Abhisek Wadhwa, wondered why “in today’s day of social media, it took a phone call to save someone’s life.” It says it is the largest community of healthcare professionals in Southeast Asia, with more than 350,000 doctors on board.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data captured from the small businesses supported by SourceLink® affiliate organizations provides valuable information for our network to report to their community stakeholders. Jahannie’s found success with mapping data from Colmena’s SourceLink CRM, surveys, webinars and events, social media, and email marketing.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo are independent companies majority owned by Dean Drako. Learn more at www.een.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. Revel blends them both, helping consumers build a “portfolio of media [and] of the people they collect,” Sideman said. (As As it stands, there isn’t a robust social media collectible ecosystem.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2021

Best practices for getting the word out were shared by Shelby Newsome from Sandhills Entrepreneurship Engagement Network (SEEN) , who sends a social media toolkit to resource partners, allowing them to engage entrepreneurs about the network and bring exposure to their services.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 6, 2020

She works tirelessly to aid in the development of the full potential of her community and empower others to find economic independence. The YLAI Network spoke with Janese to learn more about her goals for her community and how adaptability in the global pandemic has impacted her reach. Establishing a network.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vienna, 10 November 2021 – As the Impact Hub Network continues to accelerate the transition to a more just and sustainable future, we are excited to announce an update on our leadership team. This network is a community full of talent, drive and a genuine commitment to radically transform the way we do business.

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Forward Cities

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Program Director will serve as the lead project manager for Forward Cities’ SBA Community Navigator Pilot Program, a ‘hub and spoke’ network designed to increase connectivity, counseling services, and capital access for underrepresented entrepreneurs in Durham/Durham County, NC. Community Engagement & Events.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Online communities. Becoming part of an established online community can give you immediate access to a wealth of knowledge and experience – by connecting you with people from various backgrounds, and with diverse areas of expertise. The golden rule with online communities is that you often only get out what you put in.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2024

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a global education non-profit, does just that—exposing middle school, high school, and postsecondary students to entrepreneurship via its nationally run education program. Jonathan Ho won $3,000 for his business Edily Learning and Akin Shoyoye won $2,000 for his business Faderade.

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