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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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Racial wealth disparity is a major barrier to thriving communities and economic growth. However, it’s important to consider what barriers entrepreneurs of color face that may keep them from being able to benefit from investment and support resources. Living Cities’ Cities and Businesses of Color: A Guide to Economic Growth.

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

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Building Startup Communities is the Way to Economic Growth and Recovery. Economic growth or expansion (or recovery) depends on business dynamism. Startups are key to business dynamism and strong economic growth. Startups and entrepreneurs need ecosystems and communities of support to be successful.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

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As a business lawyer working with startups in technology and digital media every day, I’m fortunate to have a front-row seat as entrepreneurs create value out of thin air. America’s immigrants opened more than a quarter of all new businesses in 2011; per capita, they’re more than twice as likely to do so as people who were born here.

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No Better Future without Better Business

Impact Hub

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Price Laureate, social entrepreneur, banker, economist, civil society leader, and a great inspiration for our Impact Hub movement, was assertively precise when he told us that “tomorrow is too late”. Tomorrow is too late. And the way to act is together.

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No Better Future without Better Business

Impact Hub

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Price Laureate, social entrepreneur, banker, economist, civil society leader, and a great inspiration for our Impact Hub movement, was assertively precise when he told us that “tomorrow is too late”. Tomorrow is too late. And the way to act is together.

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Lessons from a bipartisan economic triumph, 10 years later

Revolution

Few at the time thought Democrats and Republicans would be capable of coming together around a major reform bill, but to help entrepreneurs, they did?—?and And both parties agreed that a primary barrier were laws written during the Great Depression which served to prevent a broad range of investors from investing in high-growth companies.

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What Does Social Entrepreneurship Look Like?

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In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. RH/ “Like any true entrepreneur, rather than wait for others to effect positive change, we decided to make a mark on our own. We want to change the local mindset when it comes to education.”.