Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. One particular four-letter word has been used pervasively by candidates of all stripes: Jobs.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 24, 2025

Melanie (Mel) Langlotz is the founder and CEO of Geo AR Games , a game design studio that utilises augmented reality for “creating digital experiences that positively impact the world, fostering education and empowerment with simulations and serious games.” And then, what are the government’s issues in communicating it? “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Of the 200 companies, 20 will be selected to pitch their company on the huge Disrupt stage in front of thousands of attendees for a chance to win $100,000 and the Disrupt Cup. Education, HR + Future of Work. From across the globe, these 200 companies are the top in their respective industries. Tickets are still available to the show.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

For many of those cities– who have been laying the foundational bricks of innovation and entrepreneurship in their communities for the last decade or more?—?this So the oft-elusive “elevator pitch” is instead replaced with a shorthand: “we are the Uber for X.” “We We are the Facebook for Y.” “We We are the Google of Gen Z.”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

The NASE has been around since 1981, providing entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, including those by minority owners with access to grants and educational resources. 2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. These funds are given to both community groups and individual artists in film, theatre, and dance.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

From these proposals, 15 candidates will be selected to attend and present at Pitch Day during the Charmalot Annual User Conference, to be held Aug. It provides access to resources, educational materials, and workshops focused on EHR-related topics, helping entrepreneurs refine their product offerings and enhance their market readiness.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Ben Franklin Technology Partners hosted a virtual pitch event for their TechCelerator Startup Bootcamp. Eight entrepreneurial teams presented their business startup ideas to a panel of judges, friends, family, and other community members for a chance to win $10,000 to launch their business.

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Impact Hub

MAY 27, 2024

adidas Community Lab: Empowering latino/a/e social entrepreneurs in Portland The 2023 adidas Community Lab, in collaboration with Impact Hub, supports Black and Latino/a/e social entrepreneurs by providing resources, funding, and mentorship. This year’s programme graduated eight participants, each receiving $75,000 in funding.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 1, 2022

Untapping the potential of diverse communities. The project looked to develop innovative, community-led and sustainable approaches to enhance the contribution of refugees and migrants across the region. . As one might imagine, all this diversity brings with it an untapped resource of skills and ideas. – MiFriendly Cities.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

Silje had a vision for a space that would invite interactions between unlikely allies in the name of creativity and innovation. Today, Impact Hub Bergen has grown into a community of more than 50 entrepreneurs and changemakers. Kolbrun Retorikk , who specialise in design and communication services for social entrepreneurs.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“Creative Spark Industries” student team from Pryor High School wins highest honor Leaders from MidAmerica Industrial Park and i2E announce a team of three Pryor High School seniors are the top winners of the inaugural high school entrepreneurship program called the MidAmerica Cup. We did not have experience with the business and marketing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

At these shows-within-our-show, you’ll engage with smart, driven founders, and investors and members of your community, and have the opportunity to cross-collaborate with leaders from other industries. In these salon-like sessions, industry leaders will share their deep expertise, insights and trends within your sector. See you there!

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 30, 2024

Their high-light projector stimulates cognitive responses, increasing engagement and retention, thus offering a valuable resource for parents and educators alike. We’re excited to hear more from each finalist at the final pitch event on June 30.”

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Instead, the company can pitch itself based on a credible financial projection. Realistic projections. Think Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 14, 2024

On June 13, 2024, the PA Wilds BIG IDEA Finale Pitch event was hosted by the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport. Their high-light projector stimulates cognitive responses, increasing engagement and retention, thus offering a valuable resource for parents and educators alike.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Blocksport Blocksport builds Web3-ready platform solutions for the professional sports and entertainment industry to enable tokenization use cases for their fan community. Developed a SaaS-based white-label web3 platform that opens revenue streams and strengthens community engagement.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 30, 2024

Their high-light projector stimulates cognitive responses, increasing engagement and retention, thus offering a valuable resource for parents and educators alike. We’re excited to hear more from each finalist at the final pitch event on June 13.”

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 14, 2024

On June 13, 2024, the PA Wilds BIG IDEA Finale Pitch event was hosted by the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport. Their high-light projector stimulates cognitive responses, increasing engagement and retention, thus offering a valuable resource for parents and educators alike.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. Make your emails fun — not just educational. But if your audience is extremely engaged or the community you serve is active, implementing a free referral program has virtually no downside. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Moreover, the local investor community is quite dynamic. In addition, Vilnius has made headlines worldwide with its creative solutions to tackle the pandemic challenges. As it is a very tight-knit community, local tech investors are very collaborative and helpful with each other and entrepreneurs. What’s their focus?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Seek out industry associations, taking advantage of community events such as conferences, workshops, training opportunities, and more. Education and Training: Many universities and colleges offer degrees or certificates in entrepreneurship. They will utilize two common tools: the investor pitch and the investor slide deck.

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Generating content for newsletters month after month can prove challenging for even the most seasoned (and creative) marketer. . Businesses, nonprofits, education — it doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. One of the best things about email marketing is how email content can be used to educate and delight users all at once.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 9, 2023

With support from partners that believe in the power of social entrepreneurship to transform communities, we are able to bring Impact Hub’s vision of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale to all corners of the planet, providing the grounds for interested local Impact makers to engage and flourish in an empowering environment.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 11, 2022

With support from partners that believe in the power of social entrepreneurship to transform communities, we are able to bring Impact Hub’s vision of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale to all corners of the planet, providing the grounds for interested local changemakers to engage and flourish in an empowering environment.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley. Their employees?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2021

The creativity of all the students, the diversity of their business ideas, and the number of countries represented made GSEA the right choice for us.”. Foster: “The students’ companies were the product of identifying a problem in their local community and looking for ways to address it.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Unruly Studios Unruly Splats are the only STEM education tool that combines high-quality coding learning with a social and active play experience. Jaia Robotics Inc. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Before we see a whole wave of AI prompt engineering consultancy practices for hire — just kidding, we already are — I figured it would be helpful to aggregate some of the top tips I’m hearing from the community on how to better interact with AI to get it to give you the answers you want. Give feedback. Tell it that! million in funding.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

She studied childhood education and development in college, a lifelong passion. I studied in college childhood education and development, so that was really my passion my whole life was working with children. And we’re a creative studio, so it’s important for them to feel that their creativity is going into the work.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 11, 2025

Aligned with direct services to entrepreneurs, the E3 Alliance—a dynamic advisory council of local entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) and community partners—serves as a collaborative engine for aligned priorities and action. Responsibilities include venue and speaker scheduling, participant communication, and event day logistics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I recently joined a WhatsApp chat called “Nomads in Miami” that includes a variety of intellectually curious people from all walks of life (from creatives, to entrepreneurs, to traditional professionals) who are either temporarily in Miami this winter or have made a permanent move to South Florida. David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

” For this new survey, we heard from 10 VCs — nine who invest in media startups, plus a tenth who’s seeing plenty of media pitches and was happy to share her thoughts. I’m excited at the prospect of seeing this form of interactive content consumption applied to other sectors, like education, childcare and commerce, to name a few.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. This was big news for the Ann Arbor tech community, and a huge move for Llamasoft. In 2020, they raised $5.5

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