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Resilience in Entrepreneurship is the X Factor for Success

American Entrepreneurship

Creating a Support System Building a business can be isolating. Having a support network can help you maintain perspective during tough times. Kasey Edwards: Scaling with Grit at Helpr Building a global company that supports caregiving is as emotionally demanding as it is operationally complex.

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Cheese raises $3.6M for its digital bank aimed at the Asian-American community

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Ken Lian came to the United States from China in 2008 to attend college. The one-year-old startup also has a social component, giving customers a way to support Asian-American businesses and organizations. Traditional] banking didn’t understand me or my culture or my lifestyle or what matters to me.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “We are a new generation of young people in government. And this is of utmost importance.”

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What Drives The University Of Michigan’s Entrepreneurial Success

HPA

The CFE is a unit of the College of Engineering and the Center has helped more than 30,000 researchers and students since 2008. Zell Entrepreneurs is an elite program designed to provide support to students who are dedicated to work on their businesses full-time upon graduation. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve.

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Introducing Talent x Opportunity Spring ‘24 Cohort

Andreessen Horowitz

Since its launch, the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) has been more than a funding vehicle; it’s been a launchpad for culturally inspired innovation and a community of support for under-networked founders. His career began in advertising, but the 2008 recession prompted him to shift to radiology.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Of the sub-verticals in construction that tend to cost the most (structural support like concrete and steel or mechanical and plumbing), not many can be automated because of the complexity of the task.

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ACT Tulsa is very intentional in building trust with founders of color

Innovation 2 Enterprise

After all, Selexys scaled from a TBFP investment back in 2008, to being acquired by Novartis in a $665 million deal. There is a certain level of cultural awareness that had to happen — changes that we all are going through — to connect with this segment of our state’s population. Building trust.

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