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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. billion of total venture capital. billion) out of approximately $238.3

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Local Food Systems and Kitchen Incubators

EntreWorks Consulting

Local food systems development has been a hot topic in community development circles for some time now. These efforts typically use agriculture and food development as tools to advance community economic development and to improve community health outcomes. Local Food Systems and Kitchen Incubators.

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Summer International uses social media data to launch new beauty brands

TechCrunch

Summer International stays ahead of the game by identifying the most influential content creators, and working with them to incubate new brands. Since then, Summer International has incubated brands like skincare line Baby Face with Singaporean influencer Jamie Chua, who has over 1.2

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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. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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What Drives The University Of Michigan’s Entrepreneurial Success

HPA

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

The challenges are more business challenges and design challenges--so schools need to rethink how they interact with innovation communities if it's not going to only be through commercialization: Recognize that creating a founder should be a secondary goal. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces.

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Sequoia debuts Arc, a London/SV program to find and mentor outlier startups, backing each with $1M

TechCrunch

Today, it is launching a new program called Arc , which it describes as a catalyst (not an accelerator, nor an incubator) that will seek out and then work with cohorts of about 15 startups in 8-week sessions, with the emphasis on “outlier” founders and startups from across Europe and the U.S.

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