American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For any entrepreneur to be successful in starting a business, they must have the right help and resources to support of their hard work. It has a small business loan guarantee program and runs awards that recognize entrepreneurs and ecosystem stakeholders who provide assistance to small business owners. Learn more here.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy. Prior to this technology, the process had been an “educated guess” on which drug to initially prescribe.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. What do I do now? I call it, “Remind me why I love you again?”

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Over the last few years, we have been supported by our dedicated volunteer and professional staff to continue to offer better member experience, expanded our professionalized education programs and continued to be the voice for protections and incentives for angel investors in the public policy arena.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Through an effective PR/Educational campaign, we’ve affected the shift to much more of a focus on encouraging more startups and risk taking. We’ve also had some success in convening ecosystem actors to discuss and share programs, refer entrepreneurs, etc. What is the biggest challenge you face as an Ecosystem Builder?

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. Our members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $600 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually.

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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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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. Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. and abroad between February and September 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

We must consider the psychological motivation of seeing a huge buyout on other entrepreneurs, what that startup’s ex-team members go on to build, and what the achievements of one citizen does for that nation’s reputation. When a foreign entrepreneur raises money from U.S. Competitor effect. firms and sells to a U.S. Wealth effect.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

We found one of those exemplary steps in southern Virginia where the Dan River Region Entrepreneur Ecosystem recognized the need for an ecosystem coordinator and rallied their stakeholders to hire the first entrepreneurial ecosystem builder for the region. River and bridges in Danville. Dream Launch Business Program.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

Despite the Zoom fatigue that Peter mentions, we’ve had great success, welcoming increased numbers to our monthly Office Hours event where we have a presentation on a relevant startup subject, as well as our Startup Happy Hour where we have an interview chat with a successful entrepreneur then open it up to Q&A.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. As is often said if you don’t get at least a few fellow VCs (and entrepreneurs) scratching their heads you may not be funding ideas with enough upside. He simply is inspirational as an entrepreneur, an inventor and as somebody who wants to make a difference in the world. Startup Lessons'

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

So how is Funders Club different than other VCs? And then we also have a growing portfolio of entrepreneurs in about 20 countries now. We want to harness that network effect for best optimizing the discovery of great ideas and great entrepreneurs. In Silicon Valley, you bump into entrepreneurs literally anywhere you go.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s not hard to see where this all leads: from a principled beginning, laser-focused on helping the world’s best founding teams achieve the best possible business and financial results, soon the Techstars system began to play host to mandatory, sponsor-led “education” sessions for participating teams.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 15, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Investors and entrepreneurs from the Pacific Northwest and around the world will reunite in Portland and online May 4-6 for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing! This annual event is about collaborating to bring angels and entrepreneurs together.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Mimi Aboubaker is an entrepreneur and writer. Specifically, we need to be tracking as metrics: (i) the number of first institutional round venture deals, (ii) the demographics of the founders of those companies and (iii) the composition of the funders on an annual cohort basis. We need better funder-side reporting. Contributor.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In addition, there are many other groups will give you cash, training, and community with few or no strings attached: Ashoka is a foundation that engages in scouring for and choosing the leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, who it refers to as Ashoka Fellows. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Requires Columbia affiliation. Notley Ventures.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In addition, there are many other groups will give you cash, training, and community with few or no strings attached: Ashoka is a foundation that engages in scouring for and choosing the leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, who it refers to as Ashoka Fellows. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Requires Columbia affiliation. We offer 7.5K

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

At roughly the same time, Y Combinator (YC) and other accelerators emerged as a largely analog means for entrepreneurs willing to commit three months of time and ~6% of their company to receive en masse training and connections to mentors, peers and funders. What do these approaches have in common?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. Our greatest strength is our exclusive network of entrepreneurs, hands-on investors and functional experts.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Manuela Seve a Brazilian-born, Los Angeles-based tech entrepreneur with a futurist mindset and a background in finance. She holds widely attended community events and educational programming that connect women-run VCs and startups in Los Angeles — all from her home-headquarters in Venice Beach.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

I think more female investors definitely means more female entrepreneurs, which is a great thing. Edukoya is an education technology company on a mission to make high-quality education more engaging, personalized, and accessible for the next generation of Africans. Kenya’s Lami raises $1.8M Honey Ogundeyi, CEO, Edukoya.

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