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Mentor Collective shakes off its boots to scale student support services

TechCrunch

Mentorship is a crucial ingredient to a student’s success. For Mentor Collective , a Boston-based startup founded in 2014, answers to the challenges and opportunities within scaled mentorship have taken time to figure out. According to an analysis conducted by Dr. Jenna Harmon, mentorship research lead and Dr.

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What’s Happening in Tech During 2016?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I founded Albany Can Code in December 2015, as an initiative to develop an inclusive software talent pipeline for New York’s capital region, joining some pathfinders founded in the past 24 months: Code Louisville, founded in November 2014 in Louisville, KY, is helping to fill a need for educated employees.

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25 Sources For Funding Minority Entrepreneurs

Smart Hustle Magazine

The NASE has been around since 1981, providing entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, including those by minority owners with access to grants and educational resources. To be eligible, one of the business founders has to be black or a person of African descent. 6) SoGoal Foundation Black Founder Startup Grant. Website: [link].

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Top Ann Arbor Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2021

StartupNation

Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. Amesite , founded by top Midwest female founder Ann Marie Sastry, uses AI to improve the online education experience.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

TechCrunch

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. was educating investors. So that was a challenge.

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Aspire Impact and global leader Impact Hub to launch the Impact Startup Support program in India

Impact Hub

Amit Bhatia, Founder of Aspire Impact and Aspire Circle, spoke about the ‘much-needed’. Majority of the respondents agreed that mentorship, technological inputs, R&D Support and. through Corporate Impact Assessments, Executive Education & Training, Impact Start-Up Support, Seed. environmental impact.

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho. I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. These are educated women but handicapped so no one ever gave them jobs. All right, here we go.

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