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BankTech Ventures’ Fintech Investing focuses on Community Banks

American Entrepreneurship

Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future. Community Banks, defined by the Federal Reserve as having less than $10 billion in assets, totaled 4,001 in the U.S, as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC.

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How Founders Can Master Mental Resilience to Stay in the Game Long Enough to Win

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We asked Aaron Houghton of EO Colorado to share how he overcame burnout and developed a unique solution, Dory, to help him master mental resilience, which grew into the world’s largest community dedicated solely to stress reduction for entrepreneurs. Connection practices bring us closer to the people, communities, and identities we hold dear.

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Banking Fintech Closes Series A to Expand Community Bank Deposit Management Platform

American Entrepreneurship

The country’s only tech-enabled deposit network is leaving behind competitor networks that still use manual processes While fintech funding languished in 2023 , deposit management platform ModernFi is an exception going into 2024, having just closed an $18.7 million Series A funding round. The current round adds to a $4.5

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How EO Philippines Members are Helping an Entire Community Displaced by Typhoon Ondoy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

EO Philippines members are determined to help one particular community that was devastated by the natural disaster. Their story is an example of social entrepreneurship at its best. . The EO Philippines chapter has a strong commitment to social entrepreneurship. How Cobblers Became Farmers.

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What a community means in the modern world of startups

TechCrunch

“We believe that a thriving community is a company’s most valuable asset,” Community-led writes in its Declaration. “Community scales your business, resources and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels can’t.

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A National Project to Advance Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Leaders Across Thirty Plus National Entrepreneurship Support Organizations Come Together to Advance the Field of Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building. Over thirty leaders and entrepreneurship ecosystem builders from a diverse collective of National Resource Providers are engaged as advisors to the co-chairs and the project team.

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Next Level Entrepreneurship: Investing in a New Generation of Startups

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. The EO Accelerator program is the catalyst that enables first-stage entrepreneurs to catapult their business to the next level.