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

StartupNation

We reached out to Brianna Ellison, director of community engagement for Verizon, as part of our initiative to bring the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready program to Michigan entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners. What work is Verizon doing in the Detroit/Michigan community to help small businesses? Brianna Ellison.

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Small Business Resources Essential for Starting a Business

American Entrepreneurship

Search out resources that are timely to starting and growing a small business. For any entrepreneur to be successful in starting a business, they must have the right help and resources to support of their hard work. Three examples are: The annual FedEx Small Business Contest gives $30,000 in grants to the top ten grand prize winners.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school. 1) Your school.

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

TechCrunch

Over the past four years, it’s updated the list to reflect the current status of its most valued companies. Valuation isn’t the best way to measure a startup’s success or real-life value, of course, and YC has always admitted that. Many factors are responsible for this growth. What this means is that more companies, particularly outside the U.S.,

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Community Partnership: An Opportunity for Organizations to Achieve Impact at Scale

Impact Hub

One of the main benefits is connecting with our 107 Impact Hubs in 63 countries and, of course, all other organizations that become Community Partners to explore learning and business opportunities. In building strategic alliances with like-minded organizations to support social entrepreneurs.