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RFQ | Consulting Partner for Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Metrics & Capacity Building

Forward Cities

Overview Forward Cities, a national nonprofit committed to inclusive economic growth through entrepreneurship, seeks a strategic consulting partner to co-design and implement a set of field-informed solutions that advance Durhams entrepreneurial ecosystem. Expertise in ecosystem measurement, capacity building, and/or systems change.

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The Startup Community Way: Five Lessons for U.S. Policymakers

Ian Hathaway

The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem is essential reading for entrepreneurs, community leaders, policymakers, and other key stakeholders looking to entrepreneurship as an engine of innovation and economic growth. Think in systems. Recognize there is more than one type of capital.

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Fundamentally altering antitrust laws will harm US startups and slow the economy

TechCrunch

However, the very recipe that created America’s economic success is being threatened by proposals in Congress that will make creating a new business less attractive. This continued investment is a key driver of economic growth and has helped startups create jobs more than five times faster than more established companies.

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Clean energy firm Husk signs UN energy compact as it begins solar mini-grid expansion in Nigeria, rest of Africa

TechCrunch

MSMEs are the engine of economies in Africa, and powering existing small businesses and encouraging the formation of new MSMEs helps create the type of economic growth and social benefit that carries over to households by creating more opportunity and more jobs,” the company’s CEO and co-founder Manoj Sinha, told TechCrunch.

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Impact Hub participates in “Coworking spaces for social innovation”

Impact Hub

Within the framework of the European Union-funded “Coworking spaces for social innovation” program, Impact Hub is joining the Greek Higher Incubator Giving Growth & Sustainability (HIGGS) and other key organisations from the region in a hybrid conference to wrap up a whole year of activities.

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NJEDA Establishes Diversity Finance Advisory Board

American Entrepreneurship

Under Governor Phil Murphy’s leadership, New Jersey has prioritized supporting diverse entrepreneurs and growing the state’s innovation community. Board members will also work to develop a private-sector engagement framework to identify and engage the state’s private capital sources.

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The New Economy Starts with Gender Inclusive Programs

Impact Hub

Women entrepreneurs from vulnerable communities are even more affected as they are likely to start businesses out of necessity, having less access to information and resources, thus facing substantial difficulties in growing successful ventures. Gender gap in access to resources, mainly capital and business support such as acceleration.