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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

TechCrunch

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened, and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted. ACA members and groups enjoy unprecedented education and networking opportunities, brought to them by the trusted authority in angel investing.

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Third Rock Ventures Invests in Internships for Underrepresented Groups in Life Sciences

American Entrepreneurship

By gaining real world experience and exposing these college students to potential future employers, the program moves LSC’s mission forward to “disrupt the cycle of poverty and inequality”. An alumni network is being established to support students’ post-internship and into their first full-time jobs. Partner at Third Rock.

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A Future Worth Creating: Fiscal Year Recap and Vision for Tomorrow

Angel Capital Association

We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. More than ever, we need innovation. Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. We need angels.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

Impact Hub

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. These complementary pillars leverage Impact Hub’s extensive network of over 100 communities across the globe to accelerate learning across diverse realities.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

As the Economic Innovation Group states, “the startup-less recovery revealed one of the glaring failures of the response to the Great Recession.” As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it. In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover. The time for action is now.

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

TechCrunch

This, despite research suggesting that immigrants contribute 40% more to innovation than local inventors. That means having VC firms that spotlight international entrepreneurship and foster global expert networks. But founders will always gravitate more to countries where local talent and innovation is already seen to be thriving.