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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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Online university Nexford will use $8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education

TechCrunch

The tech-enabled startup, launched by Fadl Al Tarzi in 2019, is filling affordability and relevance gaps in education. accredited higher education and lets them study at their own pace. Nexford’s most significant markets are traditionally underserved English-speaking communities like Nigeria.

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[Stellar Cyber in Business Wire] Stellar Cyber amplifies field-proven university program enabling educational organizations to deliver hands-on Cybersecurity training and SOC services to underserved communities

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NFTE Founders Forum Pitch Competition Announces Student Winners

American Entrepreneurship

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a global education non-profit, does just that—exposing middle school, high school, and postsecondary students to entrepreneurship via its nationally run education program. In addition to its classroom curriculum, NFTE hosts the Founders Forum Pitch Competition.

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Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C

TechCrunch

It says it is the largest community of healthcare professionals in Southeast Asia, with more than 350,000 doctors on board. The company says that so far, its platform has enabled doctors to earn a total of 4.2 Docquity was founded in 2015 so doctors and other healthcare professionals have an easier way of working with one another.

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These African Entrepreneurs Are Developing Tech Solutions for Healthcare and Education

Impact Hub

These African entrepreneurs are creating their’s, providing solutions to some of Ghana and Nigeria’s most pressing challenges in education and health, and driving innovation through technology to empower young people and women. The mothers have 24/7 access to midwives as well as relevant antenatal and prenatal education.

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Unicorn Insider’s Co-Founder Recognized on International Women’s Day

American Entrepreneurship

Cilingir at the helm as CEO with Chief Revenue Officer Serhat Soyuerel and others co-founded the AI-native platform in 2012 that boasts a community of 200,000+ CX, marketing & e-commerce professionals. The platform enables clients to drive growth across the digital marketing funnel, using deep artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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