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Impact Hub Bergen: Where History Meets Innovation

Impact Hub

Hidden staircases and historic artifacts contrast the colorful furnishing and modern office equipment, providing an inspiring backdrop for social innovation, technology and the realization of ideas. Impact Hub Bergen was an early starter amongst social innovation spaces and joined the global Impact Hub network in 2008.

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Kevin Hart gets serious about financial inclusion at Disrupt

TechCrunch

It requires a multifaceted approach to fight against homogeneous networks, deceptive warm intros and the basic need for more fluency across different demographics. In 2011 he founded Legacy Private Client Group, where he built a platform that facilitated holistic solutions. Ensuring financial inclusion is complicated.

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OMERS Ventures, Turner Construction team up to build the construction tech startup of their dreams

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, Jim Barrett, chief innovation officer at Turner Construction, was facing a similar challenge. Founded in 2011, the firm presently has about $1.6 An Entrepreneur-in-Residence program that would serve as an incubator for founders to prepare them to launch their new software companies. . billion in revenue in 2020.

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Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

TechCrunch

The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook. In 2011, the company expanded to build themes for online stores.

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Is American Entrepreneurship In Crisis?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. Today, there are more nonprofits and incubator programs supporting potential entrepreneurs than ever before. What happens when the entrepreneurial spirit and sense of innovation diminish? was in trouble.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks. The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Kairos Fellows. “The

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No Better Future without Better Business

Impact Hub

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. That’s why we support entrepreneurial impact makers and businesses that challenge the status quo, drive the creation of more inclusive and decent job opportunities and economic growth, and enable the acceleration of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale. We can all take action, today.