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Views on the Ground: Scenes from Our Chicago Founder Fly-In

Revolution

VP of Platform and Portfolio Success, Amira Ouji, and Head of Community, Liz Westhouse, recap the event below. At Rise of the Rest, we aim to meet founders where they are — on the ground in their communities, and in a mindset shaped by real constraints, not blind optimism. That outlook shaped the conversations that followed.

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$10K Grants and Skills Training: Free Events for June

StartupNation

Lucky for you and your business, the course and event offerings are many, varied and aimed at helping you build your skillset and your community. Lucky for you and your business, the course and event offerings are many, varied and aimed at helping you build your skillset and your community. And, guess what? Joining is free.

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

In that prior post, I had offered Y Combinator as a positive example, but I didn’t break down exactly why. This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Step 1: Find the best founders An uncomfortable truth about this work is that not all founders are created equal.

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The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education

TechCrunch

At roughly the same time, Y Combinator (YC) and other accelerators emerged as a largely analog means for entrepreneurs willing to commit three months of time and ~6% of their company to receive en masse training and connections to mentors, peers and funders. More posts by this contributor. The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun.

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

Fostering these entrepreneurs and the economies they impact is a direct result of ACA’s mission to fuel the success of angel investor community. ACA’s Four Pillars: Bringing ACA’s Mission to Life Community Networking The heartbeat of our community networking pillar is our diversity, equity, and inclusion effort.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Recently, I worked with a community that was struggling to explain what they thought success looked like in ten years to their funding organizations. I asked them to treat me like a funder. And the ecosystem building metrics stem from the outcomes derived from the community. It is ephemeral and vague. Metrics do that.

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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. Sessions will include GitHub, Cloudflare, and Atlassian.