American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

That includes angel investors, venture capitalists, and institutional funders associated with various stages of a startup’s growth. Investors also place great weight on the founder or founding team. They also want to know if the founder has the skillset to build a great team once funded.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

The country’s only tech-enabled deposit network is leaving behind competitor networks that still use manual processes While fintech funding languished in 2023 , deposit management platform ModernFi is an exception going into 2024, having just closed an $18.7 million Series A funding round. The current round adds to a $4.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. But who’s talking about the power of exits to change the playing field for diverse founders?

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

These complementary pillars leverage Impact Hub’s extensive network of over 100 communities across the globe to accelerate learning across diverse realities. The global network inspires local ecosystems with the latest innovations while connecting them to a broader international context.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Jumpcut founder Kartik Hosanagar is a professor at the Wharton School, but about ten years ago, he spent his summer in an unlikely way: he wrote a screenplay. It’s this rare company where 20 years of my work on data science and entrepreneurship meets with who I am outside of my work.”

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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. In the midst of supporting founders in their communities during a global pandemic, what do they wish they were more versed in? Startup Champions Network Virtual Fall Summit, October 20-22 .

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. Making our ecosystem more easily navigable and ultimately founder-friendly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Holberton co-founder Sylvain Kalache argued that the school would be best positioned to achieve its mission by “working with amazing local partners who operate the campuses and deeply understand their markets’ unique needs” and not by operating its own campuses. . Europe, LatAm and Africa.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

We just closed our annual survey to learn what entrepreneurs need right now and this will feed our initiatives for the next year, but not only that, we’ll be sharing this data with the entrepreneurship ecosystem to influence public policy, funding mechanisms, deployment of resources such as Cares Act and CDBG-DR funds.”.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ That line of questioning led Mittal and co-founder Boris Silver to build FundersClub in the way they did.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Previously, we introduced the concept of flexible VC : structures that allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitalists 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. no-equity stipend + corporate pilot opportunities with our founders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa. Why aren’t female founders getting a bigger piece of the pie? Tebogo Mokwena , co-founder and CEO, Akiba Digital.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

She is the CEO and co-founder of alphaa.io , a women-led Web3 company that is revolutionizing fan engagement across sports, fashion, CPG, tourism and more. She received her Economics degree from IBMEC in Rio de Janeiro and a certificate from Stanford GSB’s Latino entrepreneurship initiative. A fresh outlook is always helpful.

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