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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. For every level of experience, ACA’s peer groups, events, and education courses offer unprecedented opportunities for angels to preview and connect in real time with companies, other investors, and economic development partners.

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Revitalizing Your Resource Partner Network

Source Link

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. More than $120,000 in startup capital was awarded during business competitions throughout the week.

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Celebrating 2022 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. Seed the Future contributions have allowed us to develop strategic marketing campaigns and target new stakeholders including the economic development community that has been hungry for our education.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. You can ask a bunch of startup companies to move to a place, but it''s harder to bring together inspiring people who will build the companies of tomorrow in that place.

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Over the two days of the workshop, nine projects were identified to move the EBLP forward from the following prompts: Regarding the Field: Imagine the field of entrepreneurship ecosystem building takes center stage; it is consistently adopted among practitioners, funders, policy makers, and others – locally, regionally, and nationally.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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VC meets the land of opportunity

TechCrunch

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. 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). Monique Villa. Contributor. Share on Twitter. and Canada.