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Two Local Erie Startups win Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator Business Bootcamp

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

.” Maggie Horne, Director of the Gannon Small Business Development Center (SBDC), echoed similar sentiments, emphasizing the importance of collaborative initiatives like the TechCelerator program in fostering innovation and supporting local entrepreneurs. cnp.benfranklin.org/techcelerator.

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The Ins and Outs of Business Networking with Adrian Miller

Smart Hustle Magazine

Business networking is a fun time — mingling, eating, chatting about business. Many business owners attend networking events but don’t utilize the time or crowd as well as they can. This networking community provides members with different benefits and advantages, all with one goal in mind: increased business profits and relationships.

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EdgeDB raises $15M ahead of the launch of its cloud database service

TechCrunch

.” Selivanov co-founded EdgeDB with Elvis Pranskevichus in 2022, after co-launching a software development consultancy called MagicStack in Toronto in 2008. OpenAI co-founder and CTO Greg Brockman is another supporter, having invested in EdgeDB’s seed round this spring. And so EdgeDB was born. Image Credits: EdgeDB.

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We stand ready to support you

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These are all emotions I vividly recall from June of 2008. During that time, I served as a small business development center consultant at the University of Northern Iowa. It is our job for the next few months to empower this network, amplify your impact and for us to collectively champion one another.

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Asset Management Is a Peculiar Industry Ripe for Disruption

David Teten VC

This negative externality is unique to financial services and was particularly obvious in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The scope of the liquidity infusion has been massive even by the 2008 standard. We wrote the first version of this research with Brent Beardsley , formerly a Partner with Boston Consulting Group.

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Alpha Medical closes $24M Series B round to expand women’s telehealth — without the video calls

TechCrunch

Since then, the company has created a network of 30 staffed primary care providers (PCPs in industry shorthand), who treat female patients online, without phone or video calls. 8 VCs agree: Behavioral support and remote visits make digital health a strong bet for 2021. Alpha Medical was founded in 2017.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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