Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

As with any movement, there comes a day when grand visions need to either remain that, or be executed on so that they may evolve to the next stage of development and maturation. From Tobacco & manufacturing to entrepreneurship. This was in large part due to the grassroots nature and loose organization of the ecosystem.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. I would like to know how to best measure and track entrepreneurship and economic development in a non-traditional way. and abroad between February and September 2020. Denisse Rodriguez.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Fearless Fund in collaboration with Amazon awards grants between $10,000 and $20,000 to black women in their B lack Business Accelerator program and the Minority Business Development Agency in the past has awarded g rants to college and universities that assist undergraduate students with entrepreneurship. Learn more here.

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Source Link

APRIL 20, 2022

There’s a lot to be optimistic about for entrepreneurship-led economic development. These consistent conversations recently resulted in West Virginia Business Link’s successful entrepreneurship event— Bridging Innovation Week. How can we develop trust and invite them into the conversation?

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover. But if cities can deploy a well developed rapid response plan we have an opportunity to take on this challenge head on and hopefully head off a complete economic collapse. . Additionally, with crisis comes opportunity. The time for action is now.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2023

The convergence of technology, talent and funding now makes the vision of one-hour hypersonic global transport within reach—so say the co-founders of Venus Aerospace and its most recent funder Airbus Ventures. They assembled a team of top industry talent to develop and build cost-effective one-hour global transport.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 22, 2023

FPV Ventures was the lead funder with participation from existing investors Human Capital Ventures based in the United Kingdom, and like early-stage venture firm Autotech Ventures has offices in California. As part of the deal, lead investor Wesley Chan will join the board.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Resource’s “ESO Accelerator” will train startup ecosystem leaders on how to build a more financially sustainable organization, as well as help connect them to potential funders. It also will provide milestone-based financial support tied to organizational development.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

With regard to Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Builders, I wholeheartedly agree with this statement: “The defining characteristic of entrepreneurial ecosystem builders is their long-term and system-wide approach to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in their region or community.”(Startup ”(Startup Champions Network).

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 11, 2021

After centuries of racial violence, displacement, segregation and a lack of investment, the idea of a Black Wall Street – where businesses and entrepreneurship can thrive and money can continue to support it – is a near impossibility. This community and others like it were destroyed by state development. It's hard to know.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s this rare company where 20 years of my work on data science and entrepreneurship meets with who I am outside of my work.” One project, for example, is now being developed in partnership with Disney’s Asia Pacific Division. So that’s what got me into Jumpcut.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Practical Metrics and Methods (Practitioner Edition): Identify and develop better metrics and methods for ecosystem building. Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. Beth Zimmer.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. Franklin County, Forward Cities. Side Hustles to CEOs.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

She received her Economics degree from IBMEC in Rio de Janeiro and a certificate from Stanford GSB’s Latino entrepreneurship initiative. Our annual Female Founders and Funders event during LA Tech Week this June, which connects hundreds of women-run VCs, entrepreneurs, and startups, with thousands applying to join the wait-list.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. They saw the opportunity to develop products that assist in the intellectual development of a child from a very early age. According to the EEOC, 83 percent of tech executives are white. entrepreneurs who bust this myth.

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Forward Cities

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Forward Cities is a national leader in developing and applying research tools that support communities to better understand the inner workings of their entrepreneurial ecosystems. POSITION SUMMARY. Forward Cities is seeking applications for a temporary (six-month) full-time Research Assistant to join our team. Start date: November 30, 2020.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. FRANKLIN COUNTY, FORWARD CITIES. Side Hustles to CEOs.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

We just closed our annual survey to learn what entrepreneurs need right now and this will feed our initiatives for the next year, but not only that, we’ll be sharing this data with the entrepreneurship ecosystem to influence public policy, funding mechanisms, deployment of resources such as Cares Act and CDBG-DR funds.”. 8 and above.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The original promise of Holberton was that it provided students — which it selects through a blind admissions process — with a well-rounded software development education akin to a college education for free. ” Clearly, that’s how Holberton’s funders feel about this, too.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 21, 2021

Forward Cities is a national leader in developing and applying research tools that support communities to better understand the inner workings of their entrepreneurial ecosystems. Forward Cities is seeking applications for a temporary (six-month) part-time (approximately 20 hours per week) Research Assistant to join our team.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. They saw the opportunity to develop products that assist in the intellectual development of a child from a very early age. According to the EEOC, 83 percent of tech executives are white. entrepreneurs who bust this myth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). Image Credits: Nashville 2018 Regional Economic Development Guide. Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

I wanted to work with great investors, too, and fortunately I had the ability either to work with Accel-funded companies, start my own or leverage other investor relationships I’d developed. I also knew Peter Fenton, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful investors and a leading funder of the company.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We take tech experts, teach them the policy process through an in-residence fellowship program in the Bay Area, and encourage them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Unsurprisingly, the world’s best founders don’t particularly care about the problems of any given corporation, and startup investors don’t care to babysit corporate execs or attempt to teach them the foreign ways of entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Specifically, we need to be tracking as metrics: (i) the number of first institutional round venture deals, (ii) the demographics of the founders of those companies and (iii) the composition of the funders on an annual cohort basis. We need better funder-side reporting. The rest is noise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

At roughly the same time, Y Combinator (YC) and other accelerators emerged as a largely analog means for entrepreneurs willing to commit three months of time and ~6% of their company to receive en masse training and connections to mentors, peers and funders. What do these approaches have in common?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Okra simply enables developers and businesses to build personalized digital financial service products. However, female investors will often come from technology careers, so to get more female funders requires a systematic shift and change across the whole ecosystem. as yesterday! We can only make the change by passing it forward.

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