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Rising Tide: The Business of Climate Innovation

Revolution

With cost savings on the table and industries and communities suffering real knock-on effects from global warming, the business case for climate innovation has only gotten stronger. If your product lowers energy bills, customers will listen. The conversation: Why climate tech isn’t just necessary; it’s investable and inevitable.

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

TechCrunch

Startups start here, which is why we’ve tailored Disrupt 2023 to showcase the game-changing ideas, technologies and industries that are shaping the future of the tech community. Sessions will include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, S2G, and the City of Atlanta. CTA: Want to reach the biggest funders, founders and Disruptors?

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Startup Community Engagement During Covid

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Much of what we do as startup community builders requires in-person interactions through workshops, meetups, and other events. But the Covid pandemic pushed the big pause button on in-person events that are the beating heart of many startup communities. We’re leaning heavily on our digital platforms to keep the community engaged.

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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 extent and impact of COVID-19 becomes more apparent, entrepreneurs and small businesses are on the front lines of its devastating impact–and with their demise comes potentially catastrophic economic losses for local communities. According to JP Morgan Institute , 50 percent of small businesses have less than 30 days of cash on hand.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

According to Diana Schwartz, Executive Director at River District Association, economic and societal shifts were having an enormous impact on the community’s economy, “For over 100 years, Danville, Virginia , has been a textile and tobacco powerhouse, and that is what the local economy depended on heavily for the majority of that time.

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

A good accelerator concentrates and focuses the energy of people who “can’t not” be founders. Building a system that selects for these types of humans and invites them to join a community of similarly high-performing peers is the only way we know to set in motion a process that can eventually produce a world class startup accelerator.

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How do you attract family offices and other large investors to your direct investing platform?

David Teten VC

Same goes for SMB investment sites like Honeycomb Credit , The SMBX , and Worthy Bonds (business owners often fund others) and Prosper or Sofi (many funders have borrowed themselves).”. It took time an energy to build but it creates an honest signal to the market that we’re the ones that people need to be talking to.

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