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Women entrepreneurs find success despite lack of access to investment capital

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As we foster the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, it’s important to design them to level the playing field for women. Since 2007, the number of businesses owned by Black women has grown by 163%. The future is inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystems. Plenty of initiative. Those numbers come from the 1.1

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Introducing: Stories of Oklahoma Innovation

Innovation 2 Enterprise

i2E venture advisors go into the community with their sleeves rolled up. Plains invests in well-vetted deal flow out of i2E and from other sources in Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. . Since 2007, i2E and Plains have invested more than $61 million of equity funding in 58 companies. Expect a real-world view. .

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Acceptance and The Narrative Fallacy in the Times of COVID-19

Ian Hathaway

In the upcoming book The Startup Community Way , my co-author Brad Feld and I utilize the framework of complex adaptive systems to explain the behavior of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Nassim Nicholas Taleb also addresses this in his 2007 book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

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The challenges of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurship — and resources to help

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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. However, raising awareness of the unique challenges facing LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs is a crucial step to creating and circulating supportive resources for the LGBTQ+ business community.