American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

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. based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, it allows you the freedom to explore all the spaces and crevices of your mind and abilities and work on your own terms,” said Natasha Miller, EO Los Angeles and EO US West Bridge member, and founder of Entire Productions. “I couldn’t imagine another way of life for myself. Freedom to set my own goals, vision and mission.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

For an updated list of grant programs for women and minorities available in 2021, please click here. Funding a small business can be quite the undertaking, whether you’re starting a new venture for the first time or have decades of experience in your industry. Business loans for women are great, but free money is even better.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The Tory Burch Foundation announced Tuesday the launch of its Funding Finder tool, an interactive guide that breaks down capital options and resources for women-owned businesses. The Tory Burch Foundation, which was launched in 2009 by fashion designer Tory Burch, has a long history of supporting women entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

AAER is accusing Fearless Fund of racially discriminating against white and Asian Americans because it awards a $20,000 grant only to Black women-owned small businesses. But as anyone with knowledge of who the venture community backs today knows: Black women raise around 0.4%

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Source Link

JULY 8, 2021

The ins and outs of starting a business are challenging to any aspiring entrepreneur but are even harder to overcome for LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs. While there’s much to celebrate about milestones achieved for the LGBTQ+ community, there’s still much more work to do in the business world for LGBTQ+ equality.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 7, 2023

Comcast Commits $650k to Matriarch Revolutionary Fund focusing on advancing Native Women-Owned Businesses Native American women entrepreneurs are on the move with help from a women’s focused organization called Native Women Lead (NWL)that is partnering with media giant Comcast.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

Fearless Fund and the Tory Burch Foundation continue their partnership to boost women of color entrepreneurs by awarding grants ranging from $10,000 to $20,000. The Fund is dedicated to WOC-led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or series A financing. The Fund identified an important need of all women-owned businesses.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Start your small business with access to commonly used resources. Owning a small business brings both great satisfaction and great challenge. The following are core small business resources that almost every startup and small business value: S mall Business Administration (SBA): A federal U.S.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Which states are best for incorporating a business? Many entrepreneurs are asking themselves this question as they work on getting their small businesses ready to launch. Here are five emerging states you may find yourself incorporating your business in and some of their outstanding small business benefits.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 24, 2023

Rachelle founded Dare to Run, a nonprofit that trains women how to run for public office, in June of 2017. Suissa founded Dare to Run, a 501 c 3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to train women how to run for public office in New York City. In addition, Ms. Prior to her work with Dare to Run, Ms. Be prepared to fail.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. They want to see years in business, consistent revenue and excellent credit scores, and those are things that most new businesses just don’t have. Creative financing options for new businesses.

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StartupNation

APRIL 14, 2021

If you’ve researched grants for startup or existing businesses, you know how hard they are to find. Grants don’t. They’re a no cost way to build your business in that they provide free money to invest in the people, materials, equipment or promotional tools you need to jumpstart your success.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 15, 2021

Get the advice and know-how you need to start your business and move it forward ahead of time from those who have gone before you. A comprehensive guide to grants for women in business. Get the funding you need to launch your business and cover basic operating costs. The big list of small business tax deductions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Among other things, there has been a fundamentally seismic shift in how women are perceived and paid, principally for the better. Bureau of Labor Statistics found white women earn 83.3% as much as their white male counterparts, while African-American women earn 93.7% Asian women made 77.1% and Hispanic women earned 85.1%

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

More and more women are starting their own companies. Whether it's from the urge to be their own boss, follow a passion, or create a schedule that's more family-friendly, the reasons are endless. Therefore, many women have a hard time getting their company off the ground. www.guidantfinancial.com. How to Apply.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Established in September 2023, the DFAB works to increase access to institutional capital for women- and minority-owned startups, providing knowledge, guidance, and insights on ways to best increase capital, access, and investments in New Jersey’s diverse entrepreneurs.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You’re embarking on the adventure of starting your own business. There are several ways to fund your business, and there’s a process to work through which type of funding is best suited for your particular circumstances. Apply for free grants. Grants are funds received as gifts that you do not have to repay.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Securing funding for a startup relies heavily on the connections you have among investors, as well as your ability to attract attention to your business. It can be difficult for people of color, women, and working-class backgrounds to find investors for their startups when most of the funding comes from people outside their social circles.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the AI system to generate realistic and anime-style images of nude characters, mostly women, as well as non-consensual fake nude imagery of celebrities. By far the largest is Unstable Diffusion , whose operators are building a business around AI systems tailored to generate high-quality porn.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 7, 2020

Local entrepreneur and YLAI alumni, Evie Kanhai-Gurchuran, shares valuable tips and best practices needed to navigate your businesses through COVID-19. How to navigate your business through COVID-19. It is not business as usual under COVID-19. COVID-19 is forcing businesses to rethink the way they operate. CatchMeInside.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Many businesses function 100% from online sales. Keziah Dhamma started her business by solving a problem. It was a problem she had herself and realized other women were facing the same thing. SwirlyCurlyHair.com caters to African-American women that have naturally curly hair. Keziah was one of those women.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Starting a business is very difficult. This Guide is for the aspiring business owner and entrepreneur for the purpose of spuring thinking and investigation that will lead to the creation of a business plan followed by the business launch. Don’t decide to start a business in isolation.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A 2018 study by the the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reported that there were over 379,000 veteran-owned employer businesses in the U.S. , percent of all employer businesses were majority owned by one or more veterans. Developing a business idea is essential, but how do you recognize one?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 20, 2021

State College, PA – The largest early stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA, is pleased to announce it is one of the 20 recipients of an SBA grant intended to expand training resources that support women-owned small businesses across the country.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Small businesses encouraged to take advantage of the Small Business E-Commerce Support Program to develop website, marketing plan & implement online ordering TRENTON, N.J. Since the Small Business E-Commerce Support Program launched, the NJEDA has connected 152 small businesses to consulting firms, representing over $1.1

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

For example, if one of our outcomes is to have X% increase in women in leadership roles at tech companies, then a potential metric is to track how many women are enrolled in the university computer science program or how many women are employed at tech companies. Six years ago, we became a licensee of the CO.STARTERS curriculum.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 29, 2019

Grant Warner , director of innovation for Howard University’s Graduate School. Chantalle Dumonceaux , co-founder of and adviser to Womena, an angel investment platform focused on women in the Middle East. Grant adds that when he thinks of startup communities he thinks of ecosystems as Chantalle mentioned. Investor networks.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Starting a new business as a student is daunting. How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . We strongly recommend join all the relevant clubs, both at your own school and at any relevant graduate schools (e.g., Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

While many teams now rely on sophisticated data visualization and business planning tools, HR teams can’t easily measure different metrics and see how they evolve over time. And yet, human resources have become a key component for tech startups and innovative businesses in general. Users can then select data points and track progress.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

Dream Launch Business Program. Eva Doss, President and CEO at The Launch Place, elaborated, “We had multiple organizations in the region that were providing specific services to entrepreneurs and small businesses: business counseling, seminars, workshops, investment capital, pitch competitions, networking events, etc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

This is an opportunity for us to stabilize these organizations to help them build their own capacities and capabilities so that that organization can be sustainable.”. Resource is supported by a national coalition of funders committed to supporting entrepreneurs of color. Disclosure: Verizon is TechCrunch’s parent company).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Forewarned is forearmed Photo by Anna Schvets via Pexels 18 months ago, I decided to start my own business. You can work with your passions and values, reap a more direct reward from your labour, and forge a path on your own terms. despite the fact that one third of entrepreneurs are women. I look back and chuckle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It includes access to business tools, guidance, mentors and investors, with the hope that the founders can learn how to best shepherd their startups through the process of validating ideas, building MVPs and finding product-market fit. In fact, approximately 50% of the top execs at StartupOS are diverse, including women and minorities.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The mentors offered participants the tools to develop their business skills and gave accredited courses related to their business and/or sectors. For this first cohort, the program supported 20 ventures, 70% of whom completed the program, 50% were women, 45% refugees, and 55% were non-EU-migrants. Impressions & Outcomes.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Four New Zealand business owners share how they’ve looked after their own wellbeing during the tougher moments of COVID-19, and how they’re preparing to recover and thrive. That’s both business resilience – being able to respond to the ebbs and flows of an unstable market – as well as personal resilience.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 24, 2019

USV portfolio company goTenna ‘s founder and CEO Daniela Perdomo and USV analyst Dani Grant did some number crunching on VC funding and published the info last week. After 4 rounds of VC, I ran my own data analysis to see if my experience is unique. In deep-tech, women raise up to 75% less! .

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