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7 EO members share how to mitigate rising transportation costs and shipping delays

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Global supply chain issues, increased transportation costs and shipping delays are an ongoing post-pandemic problem. Here’s what they shared: Take creative actions. Our small business has absolutely been impacted by higher transportation costs and shipping delays. “Our Shari Hammond, EO Austin, Co-Founder and CEO, INSP!RED

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Not only did I want it to include people working on the future of digital media at ABC, but I also had in mind the roll that other types of creative people have in the inspiration of a city. "Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Welcome to the future.

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Advice from Warren Rustand: Put Your Head Down and Walk Into the Storm

Entrepreneurs' Organization

She recently attended a Facebook Live stream hosted by Warren Rustand , co-founder of EO’s Leadership Academy in Washington, D.C., a publicly-traded social service and transportation firm. Yap is a thriving serial entrepreneur whose businesses include Citrus Studios , Luxe Link , and the Orange & Bergamot.

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. What would a founder who built city guide software know about space travel?” What would a couple of adtech founders know about curing cancer?” And then I disappeared.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us. Could you withstand the public scrutiny every day of being a young tech founder and show up every morning filled with enthusiasm? I’d love even 0.5%

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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. Infrastructure touches everything. The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.”