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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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In 2017, we shared 3 ways to empower your entrepreneurial community. Here are some additional recommendations for empowering your network in 2022. Racial wealth disparity is a major barrier to thriving communities and economic growth. Who is missing from your network? Make your ecosystem inclusive.

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Revolutionizing responsible tourism in Nicaragua

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Damaris, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, is working hard to combine her love for her home country of Nicaragua and her love of tourism to give back to those in her country, providing employment and education opportunities across her community. “I cannot change the world, but I can contribute to make it a better place to live.”.

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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

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At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. Rail Network : Atlanta offers access to both Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation. Plastomics: St.

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Delaware’s 5th annual Startup302 funding contest accepting applications January 2 to 26

American Entrepreneurship

Coordinated by Delaware Prosperity Partnership and innovation-supporting partners from throughout the Delaware business community and beyond, Startup302 launched in 2020 and has provided $800,000 in funding to 52 ventures since 2021. This years competitors will be chosen from applicants who enter by the January 26 deadline.

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Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology

TechCrunch

And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S.,

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Why Michigan Could Become a Startup Powerhouse

HPA

Last month, I had the opportunity to visit Ann Arbor during a week-long series of tech events curated by economic development engine Ann Arbor SPARK. The first Michigan unicorn in recent history was Ann Arbor-based cybersecurity startup Duo Security , which claimed the status in 2017. Acquired by Cisco last year for $2.35

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Forward Cities Works Toward a More Inclusive Pittsburgh

Forward Cities

“I love coming here for that reason,” said Wasi Mohamed, Pittsburgh director for community entrepreneurship at Forward Cities. Everyday Cafe, built in 2017 by the Oasis Project, a community and economic development effort by the Bible Center Church, puts profits from the cafe back into neighborhood-based causes and organizations.