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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

TechCrunch

Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between. Sessions will include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, S2G, and the City of Atlanta.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. Because you have a unitary focus on financing your company or you die you seem not to miss a beat in thinking about the last meeting and the funder has been whipsawed in 20 directions. everything.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

As the Economic Innovation Group states, “the startup-less recovery revealed one of the glaring failures of the response to the Great Recession.” Cities need to be ready to harness this creative energy as part of their response plans. In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

What holds them back in their work (scarcity, silos, unrealistic expectations and an unwillingness to collaborate). The most challenging aspect in working with different ecosystem partners has been trying to get them to collaborate, or at least stop seeing each other as competitors. The frustrating reality of non-collaboration.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Someone who could understand the current landscape, help envision where we want to be and collaboratively develop a plan to get there.”. We have extremely talented people in our entrepreneurship support network, but as with all collaborative efforts, partnerships can also bring their own set of challenges. says Alexis.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. DV Hacks , led by BCG Digital Ventures: “A 48-hour hackathon to improve how we live, work, collaborate, and learn.”. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Notley is a catalyst for social innovation unlocking opportunities with today’s impact organizations and changing communities.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. DV Hacks , led by BCG Digital Ventures: “A 48-hour hackathon to improve how we live, work, collaborate, and learn.”. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas.

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