This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. The Angel Funders Report is based on direct investment data solicited from all ACA member groups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We asked the 40+ Unsung Heroes of Ecosystem Building which skills they would invest in to become even better at what they do. I would like to know how to best measure and track entrepreneurship and economic development in a non-traditional way. Denisse Rodriguez. Mara Hardy. How to measure the impact of people collaborating.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

I asked them to treat me like a funder. The traditional economic development approach uses static and reactive metrics – the number of jobs created, capital investment dollars, and companies recruited – on an annual basis. They take the vague to the substantive.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

Investments made by individual angels and angel groups continued to “fuel the tank” for entrepreneurs and kept investment pipelines flowing for venture capitalists. ACA’s angel groups made more investments in more companies despite the pandemic –continuing to risk personal capital to jumpstart businesses and ignite economies.

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EntreWorks Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Folks in the business of community building know the story when it comes to outside funders. They can raise money for specific projects, but can’t invest in their people or in building up their organizations. Let’s hope that other foundations and other funders embrace this message as well. They fund projects, not organizations.

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