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Small Business Resources Essential for Starting a Business

American Entrepreneurship

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.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

Ideas get poorly vetted because the funders aren't current on tech trends. Techstars and other accelerators have also become major network hubs in the NYC ecosystem, bringing investors together from all across the country. When communities lack a critical mass of fulltime investors, you get a lot of inefficiency.

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Circularity Tales: Accelerate2030 piloting the transition

Impact Hub

How can we better support acceleration and incubation efforts to push for the transition from the linear to the circular economy? Learn more about the Accelerate2030 participating countries, ventures and stories here. For more inspiring stories like this, head to our blog.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Chris McClelland, MD of Ignite NI: He’s a mentor on the city’s top accelerator program. Mark Dowds: Venture partner at Anthemis, co-founder at Ormeau Baths (in my opinion it’s the city’s best co-working space). Co-founded BrewBot.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs. To date, less than 1% of founders who are venture backed are Black; and women founders receive just 9% of investment capital.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Google for Startups Accelerator.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Google for Startups Accelerator.

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