TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

The company has to date amassed 250,000 freelancers in its community, with 30,000 businesses tapping this pool to fill jobs. End customers include the likes of Unilever, Lufthansa, Bosch, BlaBlaCar, L’Oréal and Allianz, and it also partners with traditional consultancies like McKinsey to help them source people for projects.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

Local food systems development has been a hot topic in community development circles for some time now. These efforts typically use agriculture and food development as tools to advance community economic development and to improve community health outcomes. This is the third such study, with previous releases in 2013 and 2016.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 12, 2021

After graduating from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kene was working in healthcare consulting when he started his first company — an apparel business. It was a 2013 New Year’s Eve party in Atlanta. The Tulsa community has been tremendous,” he said. “We I still remember the night,” Kene said. “It

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund).

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. And one thing is for sure: there are plenty of smart, talented and successful women entrepreneurs who are shaping communities and the future. Summersalt (St. Dawn Dickson, Founder and CEO. PopCom (Columbus).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Your company focuses on serving veterans through both its home mortgage products and community impact. In 2013, when I started the company, I wanted to focus on a niche instead of being all things to all people. I was blessed to be in a position to contribute to my local community of entrepreneurs. Here’s what he shared.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Maybe it’s time to leverage the power of community. We have a lot of people in our community who, they want 20 people and pay them $50 a month, extra $1,000 a month to pay part of the mortgage, pay a car payment, whatever. One, you’re talking about you had the community and fan base. August of 2013 we make $36,000.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

I trust her to hear out the community, gather all the data, and, unlike our current Towering Ineptitude, actually make a decision—one that she believes is right for New York, not just politically popular. Basically, if you can create a groundswell of support, you’re in the game. Kathryn is exceedingly practical.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

But most importantly, you are the support system for the other person when things are hard. The tendency here is we want to join a lot of societies and communities, and I would say that our tendency is to join ‘Women in Product’ groups, or ‘Women in Engineering,’ and that’s how we’re going to try and invest our time. Why is that?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Community coordination to encourage whole-block electrification. Hardware/software to manage the use of bidirectional charging as an increasing share of EVs allow for this option - both for whole-home backup and for grid support at times of peak demand. To support the transition we need a lot more charging infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. These numbers are more frightening when retraced almost a decade back. Today, only 2.8% of women are funded globally. Jihan Abass, CEO, Lami.

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