Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

These insights are from the 2020 Small Business Digital Maturity Study , commissioned by Cisco. How much small business digital transformation could boost economic growth. Furthermore, 17% say they are growing and scaling up, while 32% say they are surviving or sustaining their business.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 21, 2024

“The New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund is a groundbreaking tool that propels New Jersey’s economy forward by leveraging public and private dollars to invest in high-growth start-ups and entrepreneurs, providing a self-sustaining cycle of investment for innovators in need of access to capital,” said NJEDA Chief Executive Officer Tim Sullivan.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 19, 2024

“The New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund is a groundbreaking tool that propels New Jersey’s economy forward by leveraging public and private dollars to invest in high-growth start-ups and entrepreneurs, providing a self-sustaining cycle of investment for innovators in need of access to capital,” said NJEDA Chief Executive Officer Tim Sullivan.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

NJ FAST is the fourth Strategic Innovation Center in the state and will support research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the Fintech and Insuretech Sectors HOBOKEN, N.J. From 2020 to 2022, Plug and Play was the most active startup accelerator in the world, according to CB Insights.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 1, 2022

The project looked to develop innovative, community-led and sustainable approaches to enhance the contribution of refugees and migrants across the region. . Similarly, by supporting local and refugee and migrant entrepreneurs to start new businesses , MiFriendly Cities hoped to expand job opportunities and strengthen the wider economy.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Small businesses encouraged to take advantage of the Small Business E-Commerce Support Program to develop website, marketing plan & implement online ordering TRENTON, N.J. Since the Small Business E-Commerce Support Program launched, the NJEDA has connected 152 small businesses to consulting firms, representing over $1.1

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

207 Applications Approved for over $8 Million in Tax Credits to Support Investment in 28 Companies TRENTON, N.J. October 2, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced today that 28 emerging New Jersey technology businesses benefitted from $63.2 Based in Lakewood, Beable Education Inc.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

NJ Entrepreneur Support Program provides guarantees to support investments into Garden State companies TRENTON, N.J. The NJ Entrepreneur Support Program provides investors with a one-year guarantee of up to 80 percent on a convertible note or bridge loan to a qualifying company.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Entrepreneurs are not only reinventing the future through innovative solutions, but they are also positively impacting the present by playing a role in creating decent work opportunities and economic growth. Actions in support of diversity and inclusion. Talita joined us as a subject matter expert.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One example of this kind of initiative is the BEYOND divides program spearheaded by Impact Hub and supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation. BEYOND divides and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) share the same core idea: to address global issues locally and to work in partnership to create shared value. 4 cities, 4 challenges .

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. That’s why we support entrepreneurial impact makers and businesses that challenge the status quo, drive the creation of more inclusive and decent job opportunities and economic growth, and enable the acceleration of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. That’s why we support entrepreneurial impact makers and businesses that challenge the status quo, drive the creation of more inclusive and decent job opportunities and economic growth, and enable the acceleration of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

and abroad between February and September 2020. As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. Buddy Palmer. Eric Parker.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

(February 20, 2023) – The Board of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has approved the creation of a pilot program that will help boost small business owners’ liquidity following the purchase of a commercial property. For more information on the Main Street Acquisition Support Grant visit: [link].

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Impact Hub

APRIL 22, 2022

Female leadership and entrepreneurial potential remain – no doubts – an untapped source of economic growth that should be further encouraged and supported. Fostering Innovation to Support Female Entrepreneurs. Which leads us to Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA).

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

(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.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the specialists indicated, “In both the Action Plan for the integration of third-country nationals and the 2020 Entrepreneurship Action Plan , the European Commission emphasises that entrepreneurship represents an alternative form of decent and sustainable employment for migrants” ( 2019 ).

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the specialists indicated, “In both the Action Plan for the integration of third-country nationals and the 2020 Entrepreneurship Action Plan , the European Commission emphasises that entrepreneurship represents an alternative form of decent and sustainable employment for migrants” ( 2019 ).

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 19, 2022

With businesses closing down and jobs shrinking, may investing in small businesses be the key to economic recovery in these countries? decline in 2020, the worst in nearly 40 years, in addition to record levels of inflation. And despite an improvement in inflation rates in 2021, 2020 brought a significant increase in inflation.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

(April 19, 2023)—In recognition of 4/20 and National Cannabis Awareness Month, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced that the application for Phase I of its $10 million Cannabis Equity Grant Program will open on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at 9:00 a.m.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Those impacted will receive severance pay, a two-year window to exercise equity and job transition support from the leadership team, according to Clearco. The startup previously conducted another round of layoffs in March 2020, a reduction that impacted 8% of staff then reasoned to the “long-term economic impact of COVID-19.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. It’s a project that startups like BlocPower are already deeply involved in supporting.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since March 2018, Impact Hub alongside other partners has been supporting Oxfam Italia in an EU-funded initiative called MedUP! The aim of this 4-year program is to promote an enabling environment all over the targeted region for the development of the entrepreneurial sector as a driver for inclusive growth and job creation. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 3, 2025

NJ Nokia Bell Labs Innovation Center and Bell Labs Venture Studio will support research and development of cutting-edge technologies and bolster NJs innovation economy TRENTON, N.J. The NJEDA plans to make a $25 million investment to support the NJ Nokia Bell Labs Innovation Center and the Bell Labs Venture Studio.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 13, 2025

March 13, 2025) Yesterday, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved tax credits under the Emerge Program to support Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.s (Sun The Emerge Program was created under the New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020 (ERA). Sun Pharma) plan to open a new U.S.

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