StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

We reached out to Brianna Ellison, director of community engagement for Verizon, as part of our initiative to bring the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready program to Michigan entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners. What work is Verizon doing in the Detroit/Michigan community to help small businesses? Brianna Ellison.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Small Business Networking Groups : A very significant resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners is the opportunity to meet peers as well as client prospects. Start your small business with access to commonly used resources. Owning a small business brings both great satisfaction and great challenge.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

When incoming EO Malaysia Chapter President, Felicia Lim, was cracking her head over the ideal venue for our latest Strategy Summit, the location of Jakarta, Indonesia, wasn’t even on the short list. Tang Ching Leng, Managing Director of Sinwah Industries. In fact, Hanoi, Vietnam, was our final choice after weeks of painstaking planning.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2016

From a high-level perspective, these small businesses are making a positive impact on the global economy, creating more jobs and empowering communities. Having the right people in the right seats can hone your operations and output, with the right processes and strategy. This is normal, but it doesn’t have to be!

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Morningstar outlines these five factors of a company’s moat: the network effect, intangible assets, cost advantage, switching costs, and efficient scale. The network effect : a network effect occurs when the value of a company’s service increases as more people use the service. It’s also about establishing a competitive moat.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2020

Contributed by Angela Fernandez, vice president of community engagement, GS1 US. However, small brands would benefit from taking a broad perspective and diversifying their sales channel strategy to position them for future growth. Today, maintaining steady revenue growth can be difficult without the right help and mindset.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

I feel fortunate to have attended three high-level learning opportunities through EO: I attended EO with Harvard Business School Executive Education : Inspiring Entrepreneurial Strategy, with 95 other members from around the globe to develop groundbreaking strategies and skills in analyzing industry evolution that helped our businesses grow.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community. The strategy is staying on top of all the trends so other companies don’t have to,” Ji said. This crypto winter may be long, but builders remain bullish.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

How might you create a prolific content strategy which resonates with your audience at a higher level? Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, everything from working to socializing to ordering and shopping online has become the norm. In fact, according to emarketer.com ; “U.S. e-commerce sales will reach $794.50 billion (in 2020), up 32.4%

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

Fostering these entrepreneurs and the economies they impact is a direct result of ACA’s mission to fuel the success of the angel investor community. ACA members and groups enjoy unprecedented education and networking opportunities, brought to them by the trusted authority in angel investing.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tatiana, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam, takes over from Gabriela Gandel, who led the network for the past 10 years. We sat down with Tatiana to learn more about her as a human, her ambitions for the network – and her own entrepreneurial action. A: A pragmatic visionary! Why this role?

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When you drive through your local community or go to your place of employment, you are coming in contact with businesses, both large and small. However, if you or your family members have never run a business, it can be very confusing and daunting to start a business—and in particular, deciding upon what type of business to start.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

The startup community must defend merit-based immigration. Simultaneously, diversity and inclusion strategies have become more widespread; 43% of firms have implemented a diversity strategy (against 32% in 2018 and 24% in 2016), while 41% have an inclusion strategy (versus 31% in 2018 and 17% in 2016).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. And when her assets were tapped she rented out her bedroom and even her couch on Airbnb to afford her year-one operations. More on that later.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

-based Curated Loop — which soft-launched a high-end fashion rental marketplace last week after bootstrapping to launch an MVP — is sourcing statement pieces from independent designers’ sample stock to style itself as an edgier alternative to more conventional rivals. So the promise is access to unique high-end designs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The youth and freelance communities in Pakistan are also majorly locked out by traditional banks. While just beginning to emerge, Pakistani fintechs have the advantage of learning from peers and placing better informed strategic bets. About 100 million people are unbanked in Pakistan, according to this World Bank report.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Our members are able to stay on top of trending investment approaches, terms and exit strategies. Launched the ACA syndication pilot with current ACA peer groups and a new deal-sharing platform. Without our members, none of our accomplishments would have been possible and our hope for the future would be unfounded.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N. The Origins of Young Help Suriname (YHS). Growing the Foundation for YHS.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

With a little patience, forethought, and strategy, you can avoid angel burnout. 2) Network with as many other angel investors as possible. A mutual fund manager won't give you their portfolio strategy but most seed funds love having a network of angels to syndicate deals with. 3) Start with funds.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly outpacing scientific research due to the latter’s inherent limitations. Addressing this issue is crucial to seize significant opportunities. Failure to do so may result in the United States falling behind scientists from other countries.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 14, 2018

Join peer-group organizations like EO , where you can learn from experts and fellow business owners. Have you ever considered the similarities between fishing and business? It takes discipline and patience to be able to catch anything—whether it’s a client or a carp. Research is required. You search online. You review reports.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community. Expert Networks. The expert network industry has grown an average 4.5%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Some notable Islamic fintech companies include peer-to-peer lending platform and digital bank Hijra (formerly known as Alami), online bank Bank Aladin , LinkAja , which is backed by Telkomsel and Bank Mandri, the largest bank in Indonesia in terms of asset loans and deposits. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. out of its 33.6

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

We must build consensus on these cornerstones of our profession to facilitate communication and collaboration within the field and make ecosystem building practices more accessible to the broader community.” ” There are so many ideas as to what an ecosystem builder is. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

for instance, borrows money at an interest rate over 13%, compared to their local peers who can secure the same amount of credit, if not more, at less than half of that interest rate. Kumar, who previously served as associate VP at venture firm Elevation Capital, said Leap’s community today is replicating the offline-behavior.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The communications world is an enigma, and at times, feels counter to the job of a journalist. But, Sean Garrett , the first communications and marketing leader at Twitter, is trying to convince me otherwise. But, Sean Garrett , the first communications and marketing leader at Twitter, is trying to convince me otherwise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

But it turns out there are still a number of people very invested in the concept of communities making their own decisions on how to spend millions of dollars. D espite the slowdown in venture capital activity, there’s still a mountain of money flowing through startups today. Remarkable rounds of the week Etoro reloads at $3.5B

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The business is pivoting its product strategy to grow beyond recorded meditations. Her risky pregnancy caused her placenta to burst during childbirth, almost killing her and her son last year. The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new mothers. Even if it was just for a few months.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. Infrastructure doesn’t attract much attention until it fails. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The investment community in any geographic area is not that large, and most investors have relationships or knowledge of most of the others. Network with other entrepreneurs. Contact peers you have met through networking, both ones who have used this investor, and ones who haven’t. Talk to other investors.

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

Other organizations are better suited to convene events where entrepreneurs gather to provide informal peer support to one another and connect to role models in their industry. Collaboration between organizations providing various services creates a cohesive network of resources better suited to support innovation.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 11, 2022

DayTwo’s science is based on more than seven years of research at the Weizmann Institute, Mayo Clinic and other leading research centers, and has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Cell and Nature. OurCrowd has an allocation in this time sensitive Series A round.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

The other day, I got interviewed for Business Insider. It was a good interview, save for that little vein that I had no idea was so prominently featured on the side of my head--but what's a bald guy to do? At least it's not a weird fold in the back or a dent at the top. All hat and no cattle as they say. How about as a VC? And you know what?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2020

Pick up any book for entrepreneurs and you’re bound to find a chapter on networking. It’s no secret networking is a vital force for small businesses, and it’s often handled with more gusto in the early years of business development. Team up to purchase and share physical resources (like tools or equipment) to create major savings.

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Source Link

MARCH 24, 2020

Our work as community champions and leaders has always been difficult. All week I have been hearing from you how you are stepping up and leading your local communities. It is our job for the next few months to empower this network, amplify your impact and for us to collectively champion one another. The good news?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! To celebrate our anniversary, I’m sharing a few pivotal lessons I have learned during each of these wonderful years. I was nervous!

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