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CSIT Awards over $2.7M to Support Clean Energy Startups with Demonstration Projects

American Entrepreneurship

The innovative ideas of New Jersey entrepreneurs are essential to helping the state achieve its clean energy goals, said CSIT Executive Director Judith Sheft. The funding will support pilot demonstration projects from startup companies creating technologies that mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. PureLi Inc.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. When Steve left AOL he wanted to be very involved with the next generation of entrepreneurs. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! Netflix is a great example.

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

Working With A Chinese Factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition. Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. It was just a matter of time until an intrepid Chinese entrepreneur with a tech background decided to take on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.

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5 Entrepreneur Ideas That Investors See Too Often

Gust

Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. I still get about one business “idea” per week for a new networking site, which will combine the “best of all the sites” into a new one.

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Cultivating a Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecosystem Building Programs

Ecosystem Builder Hub

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. We approached this work by first grounding ourselves in and listening to the needs and pain points of the under-resourced and under-represented entrepreneurs in our ecosystem,” said Kate. “In

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Why the startup sector should keep its eye on the SEC

TechCrunch

And the scale of the SEC’s proposed reforms should alarm entrepreneurs, investors and employees in the innovation economy. But these disclosures carry significant financial costs for small, private companies — and they carry the extra risk of exposing sensitive financial information to competitors and large corporate incumbents.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

TechCrunch

It’s in our national interests to make becoming an entrepreneur as egalitarian as possible. This doesn’t take anything away from the brilliant white male entrepreneurs that have built incredible companies, but it has made an equivalent crowd of Black founders almost nonexistent. China, not the U.S., seemed the place to do that.