Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

Being a female entrepreneur is looking better each and every day. The number one challenge women face is a significant disadvantage in securing access to venture capital funding compared to their male peers. of all venture capital in the US went to companies founded solely by women. In 2017, just 2.2% In 2017, just 2.2%

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

Through the Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth provides a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs, students, nonprofits and philanthropists to share groundbreaking ideas with the investors, incubators and partners who can bring them to market and effectively advance care. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. CEO of CharmHealth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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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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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The lucrative startup landscape has been particularly exclusive and inaccessible for non-white male and female entrepreneurs, whether intentionally or not. For ambitious entrepreneurs who don’t benefit from a privileged background, it’s important to understand the challenges you may face when seeking funding. Find your people.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

He added that its partners and mentors are all former entrepreneurs and have global business experience in both the U.S. The accelerator also operates other government-supported programs like TIPS , a tech incubator program for startups in South Korea, and manages later-stage investment funds, Kim noted. . and Asia. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. An experienced executive, serial entrepreneur and internet pioneer in software and media, Dave Samuel is co-founder of Freestyle.vc. Dave Samuel, the co-founder of Freestyle.vc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. Read on to find out what these prolific investors have to say about hot startup sectors in Africa, investment trends, their predictions for 2023, how to pitch them and more.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Here are a bunch of things I don''t do: I won''t do office hours anymore at incubators and accelerators. Takes an hour or an hour and a half at most and everyone gets the benefit of a public conversation--versus three or four hours of pitches. So many entrepreneurs beg for just a few minutes of my time. Panel prep calls.

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MARCH 10, 2011

There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. The success of YCombinator and Techstars has spawned countless new incubators. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

This is besides its more grandiose plan of venturing outside Nigeria into other markets within Africa. Other investors include Chicago-based venture firm Vested World, the German Development Bank (DEG) and high-net worth individuals with a keen interest in tech-health. “We We are very excited to be part of the DrugStoc journey.

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Feedough

JANUARY 20, 2021

An entrepreneur sows a seed in the form of a startup idea , takes care of it and nurtures it with internal and external aid till the startup grows, reaps fruits, and sustains itself. However, in other cases, it requires aid from external investors who pitch in money in return for something. Startups are a lot like plants.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Now that you have said subscription, head on over to Haje ’s story about your pitch deck needing an operating plan. Rising tides and all : Sustainable Ocean Alliance, an ocean-focused, early-stage startup incubator, got itself $18 million in new funding from sources, most notably Marc and Lynne Benioff, Devin writes. Startups and VC.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

You’ve got to pitch investors, target the right customer, hone your business model and raise critical funding just in time. To provide a flight plan for entrepreneurs, we interviewed coaches, founders and VCs to give you a sense of what to expect. The founder revised his pitch and business plan, and quickly raised $3 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. So we went for it.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

AUGUST 8, 2021

ACT House is attracting not only a top-flight leadership team, our first cohort of participants come from more than 50 eager entrepreneurs. ACT Tulsa is a joint venture between i2E and ACT House. Each company works from space at 36 Degrees North Incubator. One of a kind. Taleya Mayberry is the program manager for ACT Tulsa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. Dear Sophie, I’m an entrepreneur in Guatemala and would like to come to the United States to expand my tech company. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Renato Valente, general partner, Iporanga Ventures. Mo Islam, partner, Threshold Ventures.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

Today, Impact Hub Bergen has grown into a community of more than 50 entrepreneurs and changemakers. The community here is diverse; it houses startups, established businesses, NGOs, creatives, freelancers, food entrepreneurs and more. Kolbrun Retorikk , who specialise in design and communication services for social entrepreneurs.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

We’ve gone from just having Howard’s office at Partsearch, with Chris parking himself at Niles close to Penn Station, with Phin living on Amtrak and Josh squeezing pitches in between board meetings, to a real office right in Union Square—in my opinion one of the best in the city. Chris Fralic is now based out of NYC.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

But to make sure that the startup idea can result in a profitable business, an entrepreneur needs to validate it. This validation often requires the startup to pitch in some money. Before starting a business, an entrepreneur may need to register the startup as a company or a similar business structure. Incubators.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. ” And, surely, it “can” work.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. These are the investors we interviewed: Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures. Philipp Stauffer, partner, FYRFLY Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

“It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. Investor Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett on getting to the point with a pitch deck.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

The other day, Ron Conway said at an event that “ he hopes that any entrepreneur that has “the guts” to start a company gets funded.” Too many entrepreneurs start out their business endeavors with an investment pitch. That’s what makes venture capital such a risky investment.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

First Growth Venture Network formed to mentor high potential seed and early stage companies. NYC Seed announces a summer incubator for 2010 that includes 20k investments. Well, remember the dust up a while back with the backlash against “pay to play” pitch events where startups had to pay to meet angels? Here’s how it works.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Raine Group and Premji Invest co-led this round, with previous backers General Catalyst, Victory Park Capital and Khosla Ventures also participating. The pitch that Heyday makes is that it has built technology that evaluates this sea of merchants to identify the most interesting of them all. Other big names out of the U.S.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. They’re front and center within their own walled gardens, but I’ve yet to meet faculty or deans anywhere that entrepreneurs are after hours. No revenues, no costs.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We now have incubators, accelorators, business plan competitions, and government backed seed programs, but it's not clear to me that this is where the pain is or where the impact is. One of the many frustrations of being a Met fan as I have said time and time again is that the Yankees get other team's closers to pitch the seventh inning.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

The work of supporting the entrepreneurs in our communities is challenging as it is. Who in government or the business world also has a mission to help and support entrepreneurs, startups, or small businesses? Think of various ways you can invite them into the entrepreneurs’ world and help showcase your work!”

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Most obviously, ecosystem maps can serve as a resource guide for entrepreneurs in the community. Strong ecosystems allow entrepreneurs to quickly find knowledge and resources they need to succeed.”. Entrepreneurs face challenges everyday and nobody is born with the inherent knowledge needed to make their startup successful.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Investors have already been signing the dotted line without meeting entrepreneurs in person. When investors spend time at an accelerator, they listen to brainstorming sessions, pitches and mentorship advice that includes a broad range of perspectives and opinions. Techstars Equitech Accelerator ) and women founders (e.g.,

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