Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2021

Kent recently became the seventh certified Conscious Capitalism consultant globally. EO asked Kent how entrepreneurs can embrace the tenets of Conscious Capitalism. In this context, I believe that we have reached a clear outcome of the original version of capitalism, and it’s time for an evolution. Higher purpose.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 14, 2022

There is a lot of criticism of venture capital in web3. Bitcoin did not have or need venture capital. Ethereum did not have or need venture capital. So why would any web3 project need venture capital? In the age of community-funded projects, why would a web3 project want to take funding from venture capitalists?

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

Despite the growth in women-owned businesses, venture capital is still funneled to mostly male-owned businesses. of venture capital funds went to women-owned businesses in the U.S. That’s more than double the percentage in 1997. Since 2007, the number of businesses owned by Black women has grown by 163%.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

When we start a brand, we rarely begin with thinking about the community around it. While it’s true that some businesses are situated in markets where creating a community around their brand is easier for them than others, all businesses or organizations have an audience with which they can create a community.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The diversity is the direct result of our mission—to build the most accessible venture capital fund in NY. When you conflate hyperbole for ambition and realism for lack of aggressiveness, you will ultimately wind up shutting out a lot of groups from the game of risk seeking capital and opportunity. I don’t require warm intros.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Hampton, built by Parr and media veteran Joe Speiser , wants to give high-growth executives a high-impact community to lean on, whether it’s through screen-sharing financials, or asking for advice because there’s only one month of runway left. Jokes aside, Parr’s vision for Hampton isn’t too far from that tagline.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Green Depot , based in the Dominican Republic, aims to make the planet, and his community members, more eco-conscious. To celebrate Porfirio’s efforts in creating job opportunities in his community, and in leading them toward a culture of sustainability, the YLAI Network asked him a few questions about Green Depot’s successes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For Them announced $2 million in pre-seed funding as it launches its first two products for the queer community: a breathable binder and multi-use intimacy serum. The new funding will be used to create additional products, to continue building its community and for talent acquisition.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

He found his calling in environmental and human rights law and works to protect indigenous communities in his region. I think what I am most passionate about is having the opportunity to connect my interests, my career and experience with the change I want to achieve in my community. government.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2020

To that end, my goal was to make the firm the most accessible VC fund in New York—showing up across diverse communities, getting rid of barriers to access like requirements for warm intros, and being conscious of which patterns of success I believe in and which only serve to reinforce certain power dynamics.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Working capital loans with competitive interest rates and no collateral requirement will support New Jersey small businesses TRENTON, N.J. November 28, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the opening of the NJ Capital Access Fund.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) Summit represents a beacon for black investors, founders, and high-growth startups. This event, heralded as the industry’s flagship, convenes a diverse community of new and experienced angel investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurial minds to explore critical topics and trends in angel investing.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Thanks to David Bogoslaw for covering our new partnership in today’s Venture Capital Journal. I’m pleased to announce a strategic partnership between Coolwater Capital and Versatile VC. Coolwater has built an investment community of 300+ founder VCs and over 5,000 technology companies. Accelerate Coolwater community funds.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The fund’s core mission is to provide visionary young entrepreneurs with essential capital; it also strives to create an extensive network of industry professionals. Nila Capital is capping its funding at $10,000 per round. Nila Capital envisions a future where young founders rise as champions in the startup community.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

The investment was led by Advantage Capital with participation from Conductive Ventures, Origin Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, JobsOhio, Cintrifuse Capital and 1809 Capital. The company has tripled its revenue since its previous funding round in June 2022 and is expecting continued revenue growth with this new capital.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 11, 2022

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer May 10, 2022 – Seeking to strengthen connection, advocacy and understanding as well as advise those in the SEC and FinHub community, CEO Pat Gouhin was thrilled to represent angel investors and the angel ecosystem at FinHub’s Peer-to-Peer meet-up on capital formation. “It

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. It says so right on their website.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ve been hearing the concept of “community” lately in different aspects of startups and venture capital. From Lolita Taub taking a community-first focus in venture capitalism to Archive tapping into community for marketing buying power.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. We are a community for family offices, private equity funds, and VCs focused on using technology and analytics to make better investments in private companies. Check out the online communities where investors congregate. How do you sell to them?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. For many founders in the startup community, a “founder-friendly” investor is one who stays relatively hands off. More posts by this contributor. Factor in founder friendliness.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2021

“We believe that a thriving community is a company’s most valuable asset,” Community-led writes in its Declaration. “Community scales your business, resources and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels can’t.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Orbiit , a startup that automates the interactions within an online community, has raised a $2.7 million round led by Bread and Butter Ventures , with participation from new investors High Alpha Capital , LAUNCHub Ventures and Company Ventures. The capital will be used to build out the Orbiit product and engineering team.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lloyed has scaled his entrepreneur community to over 100,000 people! We’re covering How To Scale With Community Led Growth. Lloyed Lobo | Traction SUBSCRIBE Each week, we interview real experts about topics you need to know about. Today we have Lloyed Lobo, author of Grassroots to Greatness and co-founder of Boast.AI and Traction.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

The platform serves community and regional banks by helping them grow, retain, and manage their deposits. With a strong view of the role of community banking in the American economy, they joined forces. million Series A funding round. Bertolotti completed a PhD at MIT and DeVita worked as a Product Manager at Citi.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Financed by private investors, and media conglomerate Vivendi, the company declined to disclose its total capital raised to date. The platform, produced by Vivendi, includes documentaries, podcasts, articles and interviews between experts and known players in the chess community. Kasparovchess is significantly more expensive.

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David Teten VC

MAY 26, 2021

How do you raise money for your venture capital or private equity fund from family offices and high net worths? . I see five innovative new methods for raising capital which emerging managers such as Versatile VC are using, which I’ve ranked in roughly descending order of popularity: . To dive in deeper: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

How do we take care of our founders, our LPs, our families and our communities, all at the same time? We already know we’re outliers in the blue-shirts-and-khakis world of venture capital. Where are we getting it wrong, and how can we do better? We’re self-taught VCs, having never worked at any investment firm but our own.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Now that a lot of transactions take place in e-commerce, tapping into the community is something merchants are finding is a necessity to continue engaging with customers. Four months later, the company also attracted attention from Tiger Global and Human Capital, which co-led Archive’s latest $8 million seed extension.

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Forward Cities

JANUARY 21, 2020

More information about the ESHIP Communities program can be found here. Edgar is one of the founding members of our ESHIP Communities Council in Kansas City. I found ‘me’ in the community and discovered that I could invest all my knowledge and abilities into helping the quality of life of the people.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2022

Community investment clubs are nothing new, but a renewed interest in decentralization and the glittering — albeit now hungover — allure of getting in at the ground level of a rocket-ship venture has created a new wave of efforts around group investing. Individualism is out. Collectivism is in vogue. The game (doesn’t) stop.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

But as anyone with knowledge of who the venture community backs today knows: Black women raise around 0.4% of all venture capital funds in any given year, and grant programs like what Fearless built were created to fill that funding gap.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. Think about venture capital. ” That always stuck with me.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Vessel Capital , a web3 venture fund, has emerged from stealth with $55 million in assets under management to invest in infrastructure and applications, the firm exclusively told TechCrunch. The fund is “evergreen” and has the potential for the capital pool to be increased, he added. It will be deployed over a five-year period. “We

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The Tory Burch Foundation announced Tuesday the launch of its Funding Finder tool, an interactive guide that breaks down capital options and resources for women-owned businesses. It also has a long-running partnership with the Bank of America Capital Program to help provide affordable loans to women founders. of the approximate $238.8

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