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Views on the Ground: Scenes from Our Chicago Founder Fly-In

Revolution

After the team touched down in Chicago, we brought together founders, funders, and friends of the ecosystem for dinner at Chicago Winery, our home base for the Fly-In. Portfolio company leaders from across the country touched down in the Windy City to connect with fellow Rise of the Rest-backed founders on tactical tools for turbulent times.

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$10K Grants and Skills Training: Free Events for June

StartupNation

Gain practical tips for tracking expenses, staying compliant, and building strong relationships with funders. If you came to this article to find out about the $10,000 small business grants from Verizon Small Business Digital Ready, that’s great. Keep reading to find out more about the money. These events and courses are for June.

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

In that prior post, I had offered Y Combinator as a positive example, but I didn’t break down exactly why. This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Step 1: Find the best founders An uncomfortable truth about this work is that not all founders are created equal.

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened, and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted.

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

TechCrunch

Each industry stage will also feature partner sessions , where TechCrunch partners get the spotlight to share their POV on their sector directly to an audience of their peers. Fintech Stage: Digs into the evolution of monetary exchanges across DeFi, challenger banks, blockchain, NFTs and web3. Sessions will include Google and Citizen Lab.

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Celebrating 2022 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. Without you, none of our accomplishments would have been possible and our hope for the future would be unfounded.

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

TechCrunch

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. More posts by this contributor. Miami won’t be the next Silicon Valley because we don’t need another one.