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A men’s brand, Faculty, launches with nail polish — and seed funding from Estee Lauder

TechCrunch

“It’s not a nail polish company,” says Fenton Jagdeo of Faculty , the startup he cofounded in 2019 with Umar ElBably. There will be merchandise, according to the former business management consultant. Faculty is instead “going to be very selective about who we have conversations with. That’s where our clientele is.”.

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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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The wonderful thing about rural America is that we have cultural assets and mindsets that allow us to thrive when it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation. After all, the only way to fill a gap is to identify it, and work collaboratively to address and overcome systemic barriers to better support small business success.

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What Drives The University Of Michigan’s Entrepreneurial Success

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When CFE was founded by famed NASA administrator and former U-M professor Thomas Zurbuchan in 2008, its aim was to evangelize entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor and to help instill the entrepreneurial mindset into the regional culture. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve. Just as the $2.4B

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

KSGC selects 60 promising startup teams from across the world every year and gives an all-expenses-paid mentorship/networking opportunity in South Korea. The KSGC program became quite popular in the subsequent years, with 49 teams participating in 2017, 73 teams in 2018, and 36 teams in 2019. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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Impact Hub Belgrade – 5 years of making, failing and creating impact

Impact Hub

This is part of broader efforts to contribute to the creation of a paying-it-forward culture. December 2019 marked our fifth anniversary, and it made us reflect on the achievements of the past years. We have made an Impact Hub Mentor Fund and gave out the first prize at our Demo day in December 2019. 5 years of impact.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

Despite that lack of experience, I am fortunate in that I have direct access to many of the greatest VC leaders and franchises for mentorship and guidance. Granted, 6.5 years is not a long arc – I have not experienced a prolonged down market as a private investor.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking. As I mentioned earlier, I think Oklahoma has a unique culture of collaboration and support within the entrepreneurial community that encourages and promotes success.