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The Founder’s Playbook: Winning Mindsets & Startup Strategies

American Entrepreneurship

Networking & Collaboration Building relationships, seeking mentorship, and leveraging partnerships for growth. Risk-Taking: He reinvested his entire PayPal earnings (~$180M) into Tesla and SpaceX, nearly going bankrupt in 2008. Resilience: SpaceX had multiple rocket failures before successfully launching into orbit in 2008.

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Private Debt Financing for Small Business: Fast Capital, Real Costs

StartupNation

Since the 2008 financial crash, banks have been steadily retreating from small business lending. Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Find free courses, mentorship, networking and grants created just for small businesses. Private debt is often viewed as the nimble entrepreneur’s shortcut to capital.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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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. Students selected to participate in this immersive, year-long program will receive support, mentorship, resources, and funding to get their ventures launch-ready. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve.

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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

TechCrunch

’s 2008 Climate Change Act — and is funded by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, a climate-focused corporate social responsibility initiative launched by algorithmic trading tech firm, Quadrature Capital, in 2019. The incubator was founded by Baroness Bryony Worthington, who was the lead author of the U.K.’s

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Salyer made the decision to take her community service commitment to a new level in November 2008 when she successfully ran for the Ward 6 City Council seat. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking. What are your thoughts on Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial community?

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

Even if you don’t do well really after that, Vidit Aatrey [10:46] – we will put you in a mentorship program, where we connect you with some top trainers for a month and these guys will tell you how you start a business. It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012. These people have never done it.

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