TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all. We connect consumers and businesses to enable high-quality, ethical and transparent data exchange.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In this exclusive interview, Younghak Ahn , the CEO and Founder of EVENTUS shares insights into his journey, the platform’s mission, and their ambitious plans for the future. Founding Visions that Fuel Innovation Younghak Ahn’s journey into entrepreneurship began with a passion for addressing real-world problems.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

Altitude Lab was founded by Recursion to support burgeoning startups and underrepresented entrepreneurs in Utah with fully equipped laboratories, a network of investors, business operations education, and a community of founders. Learn more about Altitude Lab and apply for residency and the Founder Fellowship at altitudelab.org.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

“The Innovation Challenge is one of the most important things that we do at CharmHealth because it enables us to discover meaningful solutions that can have a positive impact on patients’ and providers’ lives. founder and CEO of HealMed Solutions, a winner of the 2023 Innovation Challenge. CEO of CharmHealth.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 2, 2019

Learn about social entrepreneurship from this group of diverse and experienced social entrepreneurs, who talk about their experiences running businesses that make profits and benefit their surrounding communities in a GIST TechConnect program on turning a profit while doing good. Fonta Gilliam, Founder of Sou Sou. Mira en español. ).

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The challenges are more business challenges and design challenges--so schools need to rethink how they interact with innovation communities if it's not going to only be through commercialization: Recognize that creating a founder should be a secondary goal. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Founder and managing partner at Ripple Ventures , Matt Cohen is a business operator turned early-stage investor. Founders must learn how to build and maintain circles of trust with investors. Here’s another idea endowments should consider: Invest in educational opportunities to give more people pathways to careers in venture.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

This disruptive platform enables the detection of crop health faster and easier than legacy practices, resulting in improved crop quality and yield providing better financial returns for farmers. This investment round allows us to accelerate our development and market penetration efforts,” said Dr. Perry Edwards, Croptix co-founder and CEO.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 12, 2023

On May 11, the panel talk for ORIGIN Conference titled “Southeast Asia: A Race to Go Sustainable” was moderated by James Jung, CEO and founder of beSUCCESS Media Group. The panel included Ting Yan Leck, Managing Partner of TRIVE Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. But who’s talking about the power of exits to change the playing field for diverse founders?

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

Transforming lives through skill development: TSWINI's inspirational journey Chisom Nwankwo, founder of The Skilled Women Initiative (TSWINI), began with a vision to empower Nigeria’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) through skills training. It supplied equipment worth 40 million naira, enabling families to move out of camps.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

Kauffman supported the education and training part of the program. The depth and breadth of Alicia's impact on angel investing is nothing but amazing – she has expanded the knowledge base of investing as a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, as a prolific author, and as a global educator.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

“Think of the kind of things you’d tell a store associate helping you find the right gifts to purchase for your family,” says Ben Parr, president and co-founder of Octane AI. Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing guidance illuminates valuation range for tech-enabled companies. Image Credits: Guild Education. billion and $2.7

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

Presta’s platform is tailor-made for small businesses and commercial lenders to accelerate the loan application and determination process,” said Leopoldo Peña , CEO and Co-Founder of Presta. Million in Oversubscribed Pre-Seed Funding Round Led by Distributed Ventures appeared first on American Entrepreneurship.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing JC Carey, a seasoned serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience, currently leads as the Co-Founder and CEO of WelSpot. By leveraging AI, we’re able to offer more than just financial solutions; we’re providing a platform for education and engagement.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The funding will be used to continue building the best product, servicing customers and educating the community about the power of SLOs. As we look to extend the value of observability and digital workflows throughout the enterprise, SLOs are a key enabler of the transition to cloud-native technology and practices.”

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 6, 2021

Know the stories of 3 ambitious women breaking down barriers to entrepreneurship and creating innovative solutions for a greener and fairer future. The company collects and recycles household and manufacturing plastic waste, but also educates local communities on sustainable waste management. The need to support women entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. Lawrence Kosick. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Tope Awotona is the CEO and founder of Calendly, which bootstrapped for much of its existence before raising $350 million at a $3 billion valuation from OpenView and Iconiq. So the initial users were in higher education, and very quickly we moved to the commercial sector. 6 tips for SaaS founders who don’t want VC money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

With a focus on education that addresses the fragmentation associated with infertility care, Kindbody is growing at a remarkable pace, but it’s also helping many patients feel seen and heard for the first time. In 10 days, I can do the primary research and work with the founders to come to a conclusion there.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Moreover, that figure doesn’t reflect millions more who have either left the labor force or remain underemployed, working part-time or in unskilled positions that don’t utilize their education and work experience. That presents the tech entrepreneurship community with a genuine opportunity to influence outcomes.

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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. In the midst of supporting founders in their communities during a global pandemic, what do they wish they were more versed in? How do you help without enabling? Melanie Lenci. Mara Hardy.

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Impact Hub

JULY 22, 2020

For South Africa, COVID-19 and the strict lockdown that resulted because of it has amplified the already existing disparities in race, creed, economic standing, and education. In government institutions, NGOs, as founder, consultant, manager, philantropic investment manager, and CEO. Zinhle Phakathi.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Oxford Seed Fund, which is an initiative of the Entrepreneurship Centre at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, also participated — and the round is Habitual’s third round since it was founded back in September 2019, including a pre-seed earlier this year to fund a soft launch. . million seed round.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s not about being rich, it’s about repeatedly building value What some people think will happen when you become a founder | source I love the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Let’s tastefully call this phenomenon: Rich Founder, Poor Founder. The point of entrepreneurship is freedom. Most founders end up owning 5%-20%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. The global economy happens indoors,” said Fifth Wall co-founder Brendan Wallace, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Janitorial entrepreneurship. Unit founder and CEO James White watched Occupy Wall Street unfold in real time while he was a graduate student. Unit offers a suite of services to fix the process of unionizing, which starts with education. But after getting business and sales chops, he left to start his own business.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

. “An ecosystem builder is someone who: looks at challenges and opportunities in the context of the larger systems in which they occur; designs solutions that are grounded in self-sustainability; and takes actions to connect stakeholders and seek funding to enable local leaders to do the work.” ” Eric Renz Whitmore.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 24, 2021

These traits enable them to make a positive social impact. Jess Edwards in Danville, Virginia got more specific about the skill of making connections, putting emphasis on being ‘strategically likeable,’ saying, “Entrepreneurship is all about people!

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. The company was founded by Jamie Begin, founder of the AWS Michigan User Group. Spellbound AR.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell. Employees: 20.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2022

Nas Daily icon and founder of Nas Academy Nuseir Yassin joined OurCrowd investors for an exclusive webinar where he mapped out the business plan and prospects for his new company, now funding on the platform. And we believe that creators will disrupt education,” Yassin says. “We Nas Academy joins OurCrowd portfolio.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When facing the challenges of starting a business, a founder needs to be resourceful—and that includes having a network of contacts who are supportive and available to help. Financial Readiness: Many startups fail because the founder has underestimated the amount of capital needed to reach sufficient revenue and/or profitability.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ That line of questioning led Mittal and co-founder Boris Silver to build FundersClub in the way they did. Why have you switched to the dark side? What's the insight there?

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