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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

They don't have great marketing channels to those clubs and the faculty don't advocate for participation as part of your education. Entrepreneurship education needs hard skills training. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces. Kick the students out. The faculty should be, too.

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. If you’re not showing up at all the events, putting out content, constantly networking, generating enough deal flow—more specifically enough high-quality deal flow—being able to co-invest next to experienced professionals can really boost your funnel.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to.

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Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

TechCrunch

Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. Augmented reality/mixed reality. Scott Kirsner. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Startups need to live in the future. Virtual reality.

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Cameroon’s Ejara raises $2M to offer crypto and investment services in Francophone Africa

TechCrunch

While countries with currently unstable currencies like the naira are seeing immense usage, other regions using the CFA franc have sparse adoption. A region of more than 200 million people using the CFA franc, Francophone Africa is one of the most crypto-friendly markets in Africa. ” . .

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21 Ways to Grow Your New Business Online in 2021

StartupNation

How can your brand be a source of information, education, entertainment or inspiration? The podcast interview revealed how they used Facebook groups to grow their business from $80K to $500K in monthly revenue. Use this story, and the many others out there, to inspire you to build an engaged and active community of your own.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving. Cocos is free to use, so over the years, it has generated capital from a mix of sources, including providing support and tutorials to third-party developers, getting funding from its Chinese parent Chukong and running gaming industry events.

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