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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

StartupNation

We are members of numerous chambers of commerce and associations from across the state that work with small businesses (such as the Detroit Regional Chamber, Grand Rapids Chamber, Dearborn Chamber, The Right Place, MI Chamber, Automation Alley, Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance, MI Business Incubator Assoc.).

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. This program provides $1,000 in AWS Cloud credits, $350 in Developer Support credits, and other guidance. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Financing the future startup nation. ” Climate resiliency . Fables of the reconstruction.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. How did you get into the accounting and finance staffing industry? Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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Go global or grow local? The Kiwi startup quandary

NZ Entrepreneur

Auckland-based startup Niesh, which has developed a student discount platform, is on a rapid growth trajectory and has had to decide if it should grow locally, or prioritise opportunities overseas. They were simply spending more hours in the business to help the company scale. It didn’t work. “We

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Prime Movers Lab raises $245 million for second fund to invest in early stage science startups

TechCrunch

After revealing its first fund just last year, a $100 million pool of investment capital dedicated to early stage startups focusing on sustainable food development, clean energy, health innovation and new space technologies, Prime Movers Lab is back with a second fund.

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The latest list of YC-backed companies worth over $150M is the most geographically diverse yet

TechCrunch

India has a large concentration of software developers, and they, of course, can start a company. India accounts for the second-largest volume of applications to YC. What does it take fundamentally to start a startup? It’s courage,” she said. But you need courage to start a company versus going and doing a job.