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Win Up To $10,000 in Ben Franklin’s No-Cost Startup Boot Camp!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Invite your friends and family to the pitch event. You’ll come away from this experience with a working business model, networking contacts, and experience pitching to potential funders. A $1,000 “People’s Choice Award” as voted by the viewing audience, will also be awarded at graduation. Apply now at [link]. Visit [link].

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

What is the most successful/impactful program/event/thing you do/have done in your ecosystem? We have been really successful in changing our community’s culture. We were identified as having a culture that was extremely risk averse and complacent, with very low levels of entrepreneurial activity.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Having to deal with the culture entrenched with the decision-makers and having to dissolve the old way of thinking in order to utilize best practices of the past and integrate these practices into forward-thinking methodologies. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. The scarcity mindset holds us all back.

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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. Melanie Lenci in New Mexico has also had success pivoting events to Zoom.

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The exit effect: 4 ways IPOs and acquisitions drive positive change across the global ecosystem

TechCrunch

And yet, one of the events that generates the most momentum for long-term impact — the successful exit of a portfolio company — is not being harnessed. But as we know, the startup world is evolving, and that means the impact of investment is no longer limited to how much money is made. Team effect.

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All Raise’s interim CEO is now full-time

TechCrunch

Hendrix Buckner joined the organization, which supports women founders and funders, as chief of staff in early 2022 and stepped in as interim CEO in January following the resignation of former CEO Mandela S.H. Storytelling: All Raise is bringing back its newsletter and certain events, both in-person and virtual. “We

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

The result was a series of exceptional Seattle program cohorts, including not just the “unicorn” outcomes listed above, but hundreds of millions of dollars in venture financings and liquidity events deep into the roster of participating teams, year after year.