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Steve Case Testifies on Expanding Access to Capital Across America

Revolution

Todays hearing underscores this committees commitment to prioritizing entrepreneurship and innovation, and I thank you for your leadership in making this a shared nationaleffort. When our team first visited its startup community in 2014, the city had just declared bankruptcy, and people were not betting on an innovation-driven future.

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Health and Hope: Using Entrepreneurship to Tackle Air Pollution

Entrepreneurs' Organization

EO interviewed EO New Delhi member, Jai Dhar Gupta, to learn how he’s using entrepreneurship to tackle air pollution. . I signed up for the half-marathon at the EO Global Leadership Conference in Athens, Greece, in 2014, and I started training on the streets of Delhi. EO was the root cause of my awakening.

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EO Members Share Takeaways from 2023 WEF in Davos

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We were invited to participate by the Global Leaders Initiative, which aims to bring key networks together to find solutions that address the challenges of sustainable development. I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I In the WEF, entrepreneurship is mentioned, but it’s not at the forefront.

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How Can Entrepreneurship Become More Inclusive?

Impact Hub

How to make the field of entrepreneurship more inclusive to migrants and refugees, people with disability, seniors, women, youth? The first virtual session took place at the end of May 2021 and we got inspired to hear about what different entrepreneurs and experts are doing to build more inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystems.

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Entrepreneurship and the Next CARES Act

Forward Cities

We add another proposal to the mix: use unemployment insurance to encourage entrepreneurship as well as traditional employment. Evidence of searching for those established jobs is, therefore, typically the requirement for sustained unemployment benefits. It’s time to see what American entrepreneurship looks like at full throttle.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity. DivInc : has a mission to generate social and economic equity through entrepreneurship.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014.

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