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American Entrepreneurship
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Fearless Fund in collaboration with Amazon awards grants between $10,000 and $20,000 to black women in their B lack Business Accelerator program and the Minority Business Development Agency in the past has awarded g rants to college and universities that assist undergraduate students with entrepreneurship. Accelerators found h ere.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 14, 2013
What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. You can ask a bunch of startup companies to move to a place, but it''s harder to bring together inspiring people who will build the companies of tomorrow in that place.
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Ecosystem Builder Hub
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The goal of EBLP is to collaboratively design, build, test, and validate a field-wide infrastructure that will accelerate adoption of ecosystem building as a practice in economic, community, workforce, and entrepreneurship development in the United States. Scaling the Startup Act. What would that look like?
Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
How should we interpret the data about our startup community, especially in immigrant communities and communities of color? I would like to know how to best measure and track entrepreneurship and economic development in a non-traditional way. International Economic Development Council Virtual Annual Conference , October 16-18.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 18, 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. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge.
David Teten VC
DECEMBER 2, 2019
You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
JUNE 20, 2020
I asked them to treat me like a funder. The traditional economic development approach uses static and reactive metrics – the number of jobs created, capital investment dollars, and companies recruited – on an annual basis. They described social improvement and positive outcomes – but nothing that was tangible.
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