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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

What you want, however, is to increase the chance that such a founder winds up in your locale—that not only is it routine to find such a person, but there’s also a path for well meaning, aspirational folks just starting out their career to grow into that founder through learning, experience and mentorship. You need both.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier.

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Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it?

TechCrunch

This should come as no surprise, given that fintech combines two sectors traditionally dominated by men: finance and technology. of the funding raised since 2009, while Latinx female founders saw only 0.4% Add in the intersection of race and ethnicity, and the figures become bleaker: Black women founders received 0.6%

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Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

They’ve partnered with TechStars, ID Ventures, Lofty Ventures, Wayne State University and Precursor Ventures, which gives them the mentorship and funding to scale. Credibly is a Detroit fintech startup helping small businesses receive loans and financing by leveraging data and technology. Apply now to ToDoolie. . FutureBank.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing.