Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. This trifecta serves as a catalyst for accelerated growth and long-term viability.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. month all-paid residency program invites global startups to participate in this program known as an entry point for business in the Asian market. Besides the 3.5-month

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 14, 2023

October 12, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board today approved the first investment in an emerging New Jersey company from the New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund (NJIEF). I look forward to seeing the next step for 1Huddle and future companies approved under the Innovation Evergreen Fund.”

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Impact Hub

APRIL 20, 2023

Breakthroughs in net zero and circular innovation have the potential to pave the way towards a 100% zero carbon future. Startups have proven to be successful in scaling new climate tech innovations and have the potential to drive significant market shifts. The total investment needed amounts to $9.2

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Consequently, metros like Nashville, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, and Phoenix have attracted more transplants from coastal hubs — a shift that helps spur economic development but also puts pressure on housing costs and public services. Collaboration is the hardest, but arguably the most important.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 13, 2019

Another thing I learned recently has to do with the recipe for a robust innovation economy and the unintended consequences of well-intended legislation. a nonprofit corporation that mentors many of the state’s technology-based startup companies. Here’s the situation. Scott Meacham is president and CEO of i2E Inc.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Bahia could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 2, 2023

From navigating complex regulations and securing funding to connecting with and growing a network, entrepreneurs in Vietnam face a unique set of challenges as they build their businesses: Access to capital: Securing funding for a new business can be elusive, particularly for startups.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 4, 2022

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Every year, dozens of PA startups get their start with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. WE INVEST IN INNOVATION. . The post STARTUPS RECEIVE INVESTMENT FROM BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS appeared first on BFTP/CNP. For more information: www.reflexion.co. www.cnp.benfranklin.org.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

SOSV this morning announced work on a $50 million HAX facility in Newark, New Jersey focused on growing industrial, healthcare and climate startups. The five-year development plan utilizes $25 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. companies working toward their seed round.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. Entrepreneurial development in rural areas is needed now more than ever.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Building Startup Communities is the Way to Economic Growth and Recovery. The pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated the situation. And yet, our economic policies espoused by governments and traditional economic development approaches continue to focus on attracting big businesses. Economies are hurting.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Meeting highlights Governor’s commitment to equity and inclusion in New Jersey’s innovation economy TRENTON, N.J. While we have more work to do to ensure minority entrepreneurs have access to the funding needed to launch and grow in the Garden State, discussions such as these will help to spark ideas for ways to level the playing field.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The undisclosed investment comes two months after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced the tech giant’s intentions to commit $1 billion over the next five years in “tech-led initiatives”, which includes a $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at early- and growth-stage startups on the continent.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Now there is a new book to add to the ecosystem building library — Creating Startup Junkies: Building Sustainable Venture Ecosystems in Unexpected Places by Jeff Amerine and Jeff Standridge. Many ecosystem builders may already be familiar with Amerine and Stanbridge through the Startup Junkies podcast.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 29, 2020

There’s a new community network emerging to help entrepreneurial ecosystem builders connect, learn, and grow— Startup Communities: The community for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. Startup Communities: The community for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders to connect, learn, and grow. Accelerators. Startup Coaching.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 10, 2024

Your innovation could be the spark that transforms industries and landscapes. It’s an amazing opportunity to showcase your innovation and potentially secure the resources to bring your idea to life. Ignite Your Innovation: Dive into a community of like-minded creators and thinkers, ready to amplify your BIG IDEA.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

The Federally established State Small Business Credit Initiative support investments into New Jersey companies Through the use of three unique investment strategies funded through the federal State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), the New Jersey Economic Development Agency (NJEDA) is supporting New Jersey small and early-stage businesses.

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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. ” Climate resiliency .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Jamil Wyne is an advisor, investor and author focusing on entrepreneurship, technology and economic development in emerging markets. A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem. As of October, climate-tech startups had raised over $32 billion in 2021 and, according to Dealroom and London & Co., Contributor.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Does it mean that big tech will always choose to invest in coastal cities, further enriching strong startup ecosystems? It would have signaled that a more equally dispersed innovation economy is possible and it would have accelerated that progress for one lucky city. I just don’t believe that to be true. and should?—?have

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Put off by high taxes and paperwork in their home country, many Italian entrepreneurs moved to places like London in years past to startup. Will the coronavirus stymie their efforts?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Choo Heng Tong, the Executive Vice President for New Ventures and Innovation, EDB, said delivering sustainability goals is now more pressing as it also presents an opportunity for collaboration across the ecosystem to build and scale climate tech ventures.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 24, 2020

Tom Wolf today announced that his proposed 2020-21 General Fund budget will include a $5 million increase for the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority (BFTDA), which funds the statewide Ben Franklin Technology Partners initiative, one of the most widely known and emulated state technology-based economic development programs in the nation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Today, in a twist, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has announced a proposal for a $10 million allocation in the state budget to create a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The Black and Latinx Seed Fund will be administered by the New Economic Development Authority (NJEDA).

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. Corporate sponsored business idea competitions and accelerators abound.

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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?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Beyond that, we want to form a social mission to be the largest, if not one of the largest, B corporations powering the most innovative technology. The next steps are all about accelerating coverage of the AI data pipeline, launching in new markets, like Europe and eventually Asia Pacific, and building out operations.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

I don’t feel uncomfortable with the conversations anymore (which might be a bad thing) but good, long-term solutions to creating more equity still seems like it is a long way off, that we try to fix the same problems with the same solutions rather than realizing that radical, innovative interventions are necessary. Metrics & Data.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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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. and abroad between February and September 2020. Buddy Palmer. Eric Parker.

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Source Link

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In recent years, the region has emerged as a thriving innovation hub, home to a host entrepreneurial activity with Orlando consistently ranking as one of the best cities to start a business. Central Florida attracts millions of tourists annually, but it is also a top destination for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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HPA

JULY 18, 2019

The unicorns in Michigan demonstrate a fertile startup ecosystem with unlimited opportunities. A couple weeks ago, StockX became the state’s newest in a quickly-growing cohort of unicorns, which includes two other startups that also earned the elite status this year. Acquired by Cisco last year for $2.35

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

To unpack this rare gem of Europe’s startup scene, we spoke to eight area investors. Among the trends they identified are startups in B2B, business automation processes, e-commerce, AI, SaaS and COVID-19-related solutions, as well as “smart” everything: factories, cities, offices, etc. Innovative. More than 50%?

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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 capitalists 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.

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