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Growth with purpose: Q&A with a YLAI Fellow small-business expert

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

I’m taking people on board and asking them, what is your vision for small businesses? LinkUp launched in 2017. I’ve learned so much about finding the right talent, and finding out what’s available in other markets, and networking. How do you keep the essence of what LinkUp is as it grows larger? I graduated from college in 2012.

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SecureTech News Roundup

Dream It

In late-March, the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Centre Oversight Board reported that the company had not fixed critical security flaws in its products, even after promising to patch specific issues back in 2012. billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017. CI Security, a seven-year-old, Seattle, Wa.

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EO Hosts International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations in Support of UN Sustainable Development Goals

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By hosting the IES, EO aims to create momentum among leading entrepreneurs from around the world and incite connections with key stakeholders from the broader UN SDGs ecosystem—forming a network of connections that will empower business leaders to contribute in solving pressing global challenges.

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Five Lessons Learned from the Ample Hills $8 Million Raise

This is going to be BIG.

Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window. Closing this round was a real team effort.

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Rachelle Suissa is Breaking Barriers, Empowering Women to Rise and Lead in the Modern World

Jason Malki

Rachelle received her Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy in New York City in 2017. She also currently sits on the Junior Advisory Board for the Leopold Schepp Scholarship Foundation Event Planning Committee. Prior to that, Ms. Prior to founding Dare to Run, Ms.

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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

TechCrunch

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

Word travels at light speed amongst this small network of people who all know each other and even though they’re rivals they also sit on boards together and many probably went to business school together. The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going. Some startups will have a hard time reorienting.

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