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Rising Tide: The Business of Climate Innovation

Revolution

Maryland, and Virginia.” —  Mahati Sridhar, Rise of the Rest Partner Mahati opened the morning by underscoring the regional opportunity and the need to connect founders, funders, and institutions across the DMV who are building the next generation of climate solutions. If your product lowers energy bills, customers will listen.

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Teaching entrepreneurial skills is a worthy endeavor and likely offers career benefits to ambitious employees and their employers, but it is not the purpose of a startup accelerator.

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

TechCrunch

Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape? More posts by this contributor. When it rains, it pours.

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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

TechCrunch

It’s time to disrupt TechCrunch Disrupt This year, we’re reimagining and refreshing Disrupt to deliver the essential tools, knowledge, and connections that help ignite ideas and accelerate the next generation of startups. Sessions will include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, S2G, and the City of Atlanta.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

During the Great Recession, business failures rose faster than business starts and startup rates fell to a record low. As the Economic Innovation Group states, “the startup-less recovery revealed one of the glaring failures of the response to the Great Recession.” In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover.

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Startup Community Engagement During Covid

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Much of what we do as startup community builders requires in-person interactions through workshops, meetups, and other events. But the Covid pandemic pushed the big pause button on in-person events that are the beating heart of many startup communities. The responses varied considerably. Our community Slack channels continue to grow.