Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 18, 2021

ERIE, PA – On Thursday, January 14, 2021,with more than 160 viewers in the zoom audience, seven companies made their final pitch presentations to four independent judges; a panel which also included a past BIG IDEA winner, Dr. Wei-Shin Lai with Acoustic Sheep.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Identify Potential Allies.

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Impact Hub

MAY 13, 2021

That is what entrepreneurs around the world have always done, and the pandemic is no exception. It has been proven over and over that entrepreneurship plays a huge role in getting us through – and out of – challenging economic times. Turning challenges into opportunities. Samuel Danso says. .

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 19, 2022

Claude Grunitzky , serial entrepreneur, founder of Trace TV and the event’s keynote speaker, expressed the need for Africa to focus on ‘market-creating innovations’ , new ways to create jobs and prosperity for Africans. SMEs are the best suited for these kinds of innovations, as they need to be agile and flexible by nature.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

“We are convinced that the contribution of these type of companies, especially the scale-ups, is super significant to the prosperity and to the economic growth of the country. “The entrepreneurs are always looked at as super fancy and smart people but at the end of the day we are the same. .

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Having worked in entrepreneurial ecosystem building ourselves, we were not surprised that the main challenges in our field arise around a typical old-school mindset and a severe lack of equal opportunities for entrepreneurs of ALL ethnicities, backgrounds and gender. Clark Rinehart. We’re better together. Melanie Lenci. Eric Parker.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

The Act, which allocates $2 billion to states under the “Innovation and Startups Equity Investment Program,” enables investors in undercapitalized regions to leverage federal dollars into startup investments. Senators led by Amy Klobuchar introduced the New Business Preservation Act to incentivize venture capital formation around the country.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Apprentiscope ApprentiScope exists to bolster our national workforce by facilitating the adoption, expansion and success of apprenticeship programs through innovative, efficient and powerful software solutions. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

In this fireside chat from the American Dynamism Summit , a16z Cofounder and General Partner Marc Andreessen sits down with economist, podcaster, and polymath Tyler Cowen to discuss the state of innovation in America, from recent AI advances to growing support for nuclear power. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it.

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