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15 Underrepresented Founders Share $170K in Startup302 Grant Prizes

American Entrepreneurship

We’re so grateful for the ongoing support from sponsors and community members for this exciting competition, and, as usual, we were extremely impressed by the quality of the startups who made it to the finals,” said DPP Director of Innovation Noah Olson. These included a welcome reception on May 15 and a breakfast with investors on May 17.

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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

Tech that serves to conserve the oceans while using it to replace older, more harmful means of generating energy and food seems to be one such opportunity. The open ocean also contains tremendous amounts of energy. But today, it increasingly means tapping the enormous energy represented by the ocean’s winds and waves.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. At the time I wasn’t 100% sure but he made compelling arguments about how other markets have developed as they matured so I took note. Ten years on much has changed. For starters, a16z was only 2 years old then (as was Bitcoin).

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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

TechCrunch

And even though robotics is weathering the current slowdown in venture funding better than other tech sectors, it’s still too easy for innovative inventions to remain stuck in the lab. Here’s what our panelists bring to the table, and why we can’t wait to get their take on the topic.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

As with any movement, there comes a day when grand visions need to either remain that, or be executed on so that they may evolve to the next stage of development and maturation. Someone who could understand the current landscape, help envision where we want to be and collaboratively develop a plan to get there.”. Challenges.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

As the Economic Innovation Group states, “the startup-less recovery revealed one of the glaring failures of the response to the Great Recession.” Cities need to be ready to harness this creative energy as part of their response plans. In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover. The time for action is now.

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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

TechCrunch

Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between. Sessions will include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, S2G, and the City of Atlanta.