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Pennsylvania Supports Small Business with Bipartisan State Budget

American Entrepreneurship

“Main streets across our Commonwealth are not only an important part of our small business economy, but they also create community, are gathering places and enhance our quality of life,” said Stephen McKnight, President and CEO, Blair County Alliance for Business and Economic Growth. “We

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says.

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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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Racial wealth disparity is a major barrier to thriving communities and economic growth. On the podcast Breaking Down Barriers , Dell Gines, senior community development advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, explained: “You can’t say you’re an ecosystem builder if you’re not an inclusive ecosystem builder.

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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. Entrepreneurial development in rural areas is needed now more than ever.

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NJEDA Angel Tax Credit Approvals Drive over $63 Million in Private Sector Investment into New Jersey Companies in 2023

American Entrepreneurship

October 2, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced today that 28 emerging New Jersey technology businesses benefitted from $63.2 Two companies benefitting from the ATC program in the second quarter of 2023 include EV Edison and Beable Education Inc. Based in Lakewood, Beable Education Inc.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. In 2019, the company embarked on one such project as it developed Nigeria’s first real-time election database. Five years on, this startup, Stears , is announcing a $3.3

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Innovation Policy and the Economy: Some New Research

EntreWorks Consulting

The essay reviews various causal factors for this “spatial mismatch,” and addresses potential policy solutions, such as creation of new “entrepreneur friendly zones,” providing more education support to residents in distressed areas, targeting grants and research funds to these regions, and so on. EntreWorks Blog.