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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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Identifying and filling these cultural competency gaps benefits your entire community, and it is an essential component of continued economic and social progress. These resources can help you get started: IEDC’s Playbook for Equitable Economic Development.

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VC meets the land of opportunity

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When Mucker launched back in 2011, our founding partners, who had left Silicon Valley for LA, set out to prove that high-growth companies can be built anywhere. My story is that of the average American, and yet feels light years apart from what people perceive as the “innovation economy.” And yet, here we are. This is America.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

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Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Echoing Green is a foundation that distinguishes transformational leaders via its fellowships. Kairos Fellows. “The

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What makes a successful and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem? (Part 2)

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Collaboration between organizations providing various services creates a cohesive network of resources better suited to support innovation. Without intentional and strategic collaboration across support organizations, entrepreneurial ecosystems will not meet their full potential for incubation of new ideas and inclusive innovation.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Applicants must be primarily based in NYC. Applications will be continually accepted on a rolling basis.

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How To Grow Your Economy. Build It, Don’t Buy It!

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And yet, our economic policies espoused by governments and traditional economic development approaches continue to focus on attracting big businesses. It’s time for a radical rethink in how we do economic development. While startups are key to job creation and economic growth, they can’t succeed on their own.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

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Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.