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Small Business Resources Essential for Starting a Business

American Entrepreneurship

Fearless Fund in collaboration with Amazon awards grants between $10,000 and $20,000 to black women in their B lack Business Accelerator program and the Minority Business Development Agency in the past has awarded g rants to college and universities that assist undergraduate students with entrepreneurship. Learn more here.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

Impact Hub

Impact enterprises refer to SMEs (small-medium enterprises), SGBs (small growing businesses) and micro enterprises operating at the crossroads of entrepreneurship and social and/or environmental impact. Our mission is to build locally rooted and globally connected entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale.

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The exit effect: 4 ways IPOs and acquisitions drive positive change across the global ecosystem

TechCrunch

Regardless of how groundbreaking their product idea might be, immigrant Americans will always be more wary of putting their eggs into the entrepreneurship basket, at least as long as 93% of all VC money continues to be controlled by white men. More posts by this contributor. For many VCs, the exit is the endgame; you cash in and move on.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship. I asked them to treat me like a funder. Voices from the field. Metrics do that. They take the vague to the substantive.

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Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

FundersClub

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this? ” In the end, venture capital is driven by capitalism.

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The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education

TechCrunch

At roughly the same time, Y Combinator (YC) and other accelerators emerged as a largely analog means for entrepreneurs willing to commit three months of time and ~6% of their company to receive en masse training and connections to mentors, peers and funders. More posts by this contributor. The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

Reports indicate they secured 83% more funding than the previous year, primarily attributed to the record-setting $329 billion U.S. startups raked last year. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. These numbers are more frightening when retraced almost a decade back.

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