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The interactive International Entrepreneurial Summit (IES) focused on supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) —17 goals and 169 targets to eradicate poverty, reverse inequality and halt climate change by 2030. says Brian Brault , former EO Global Chair, who was a key organizer for the event.
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a Suriano, 2018 YLAI Fellow. “It I gained a solid business background to support my creative side. How would you advise people to support marginalized communities? . There are many ways in which any one person can also support these groups. By Jewelle Saunders. to gain practical experience on my degree.
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” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project. “Together, we see this as a key opportunity to bring even more innovation and creativity to Hubs than we could alone,” Udom said in a blog post.
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Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / Non-Equity Assistance from Creative Destruction Lab. Raised so far: 2018 secured undisclosed funding from ICURe; 2019 £70,000 of funding from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and £30,000 from a Glasgow company to support that award. ” Vector Photonics.
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Everette Taylor: Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor is a creative entrepreneur who is passionate about art, supporting creators and making creativity accessible to all. We want to hear more about how he plans to do that in the (mostly) post-COVID, post-supply-change crunch world.
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