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CSIT Awards over $2.7M to Support Clean Energy Startups with Demonstration Projects

American Entrepreneurship

The innovative ideas of New Jersey entrepreneurs are essential to helping the state achieve its clean energy goals, said CSIT Executive Director Judith Sheft. The funding will support pilot demonstration projects from startup companies creating technologies that mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

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How to Build a Team That Can Navigate Your Business Through Difficult Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This includes building out personal development plans to keep employees engaged and challenged and refreshing our core values to ensure they remain relevant in a post-coronavirus climate. Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior.

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Why I Backed a 24-Year-Old Trying to Assess Human Potential

Both Sides of the Table

I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund? Hard Problems I encourage entrepreneurs to try and tackle harder problems even if it makes fund raising more difficult and is less likely to succeed. Fundamentally the system feels broken.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Why Taking a Customer-Centric Approach Significantly Reduces Risks and Increases Your Chance of Success

StartupNation

To build successful businesses, entrepreneurs must fall in love with solving customer problems more than their own ideas. Entrepreneurs often rush to build and test their ideas using the lean startup methodology. Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs do a great job failing. They are taught and believe that they should “fail fast.”

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

Working With A Chinese Factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition. It was just a matter of time until an intrepid Chinese entrepreneur with a tech background decided to take on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. So it was just a matter of time until an intrepid Chinese entrepreneur with a tech background decided to take on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.

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Cultivating a Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecosystem Building Programs

Ecosystem Builder Hub

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. We approached this work by first grounding ourselves in and listening to the needs and pain points of the under-resourced and under-represented entrepreneurs in our ecosystem,” said Kate. “In