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Startup Fundraising that Meets Investor Expectations

American Entrepreneurship

That includes angel investors, venture capitalists, and institutional funders associated with various stages of a startup’s growth. They also look for certain traits in the founder such as vision, passion, and leadership to build the right team. For a solo entrepreneur, they look for experience and significant accomplishments.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even Ten years on much has changed.

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

One of the questions I heard most often from commenters was: “if Techstars is an example of a failed accelerator, what does a good one look like?” This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders.

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. Beth Zimmer , Project Manager at Ecosystem Building Leadership Project. It launched in March, and has made some significant progress over the past few months. What would that look like?

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Venus Aerospace’s Hypersonic Global Transport Receives Airbus Ventures Funding

American Entrepreneurship

The convergence of technology, talent and funding now makes the vision of one-hour hypersonic global transport within reach—so say the co-founders of Venus Aerospace and its most recent funder Airbus Ventures. They assembled a team of top industry talent to develop and build cost-effective one-hour global transport.

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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? If you slept on it, Accelerate2030 is the world’s leading program for entrepreneurial solutions towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: CEO pregnancy checklist, decision-tree planning, reassessing valuations

TechCrunch

“Starting a business is hard, but we now have a path for proptech lined with funders and advisers that can propel entrepreneurs over early obstacles through to maturity and deep market penetration.” How would she break the news to her leadership team and employees? Since housing accounts for as much as 18% of the U.S.

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