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A Year of Resilience: Cheers to 2021

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After collectively witnessing many of our main street and small businesses across the country close in 2020, there arose a new sense of appreciation for the value entrepreneurs bring to our communities and our economy. You don’t always appreciate what you have until it’s gone.

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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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In 2020, we convened industry experts for a SourceLink Affiliate Quarterly Conversation, Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building: Moving into Action to discuss insights and best practices around providing inclusive entrepreneur support. Go beyond a quick impersonal referral. New entrepreneurs make a big difference.

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5 EO Australia Women Share How To Make Entrepreneurship More Inclusive

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Widespread layoffs during the pandemic contributed to an initial rise in female entrepreneurship in 2020, along with the need for flexibility. Having women on the boards of organizations for entrepreneurs specifically is also essential and is something EO has been committed to improving, offering equal representation where it matters.

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AppHarvest is now APPH: Rise of the Rest’s First Publicly Traded Company

Revolution

While more than 75% of the Fortune 500 is headquartered in cities all across the country, nearly 75% of venture capital dollars invested each year ( $130B+ in 2020 ) is concentrated in just three states: California, New York, and Massachusetts. Anna Mason serves on the board of APPH. and should?—?be

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The Greg Main Distinguished Scholar Award

Innovation 2 Enterprise

His 40 years of economic development experience included tenures at the Michigan Department of Commerce; Secretary of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce where he created the nationally recognized Quality Jobs Program; and Partner in both Intersouth Partners and Chisholm Private Capital Partners of Oklahoma City. Gregory’s University.

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NJEDA Board Makes Wide-Ranging Set of Approvals to Continue Growing NJ’s Economy

American Entrepreneurship

May 22, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board made several key program and policy approvals during its May meeting, including its first awards of residential projects under the Aspire Program, additional funding for the Authority’s child care programming, and record-breaking investments in venture capital. (May

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Good Meat approved to sell serum-free cultivated meat in Singapore

TechCrunch

Its lab-grown chicken is currently available in Singapore, where Eat Just gained regulatory approval to sell its lab-grown chicken meat in 2020. -based food startup Eat Just, says it is the only cultivated meat producer in the world with the ability to sell to consumers.