Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Ive been grateful to see that support firsthand throughout my careerwhether through the passage of the JOBS Act , the creation of Opportunity Zones , or, most recently, the Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) initiative. We all know that talent is everywhere, but opportunity is often not.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

A clutch of the world’s largest consumer products and food companies are joining Budweiser’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev in backing an investment program to support early-stage companies focused on making supply chains more sustainable. Those startups have gone on to raise more than $200 million in follow-on financing.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

-Atul National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Herrmann The conversation: Choose your own adventure with National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Hermann The takeaways: Today’s climate problems are also incredible investment opportunities. Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Juno , a proptech startup which aims to build more sustainable and affordable apartment buildings, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception.

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Source Link

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Tracking, measuring and reporting are key components for growing and sustaining an entrepreneurial support network. Data analyses and surveys will reveal gaps and opportunities in the network, ultimately resulting in better, more tailored and impactful support for area entrepreneurs and small business owners residing in Orange County.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment using robotics and innovation. Formally adopting bylaws and initiating projects in support of the Millenium Development Goals and later the Sustainable Development Goals has all been part of the organization’s evolution, sparked by Ashna’s original passion for empowering youth.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 18, 2025

In the full day of learning, attendees will get actionable insights from eight speaker sessions, plus the opportunity to network and connect with other entrepreneurs. Attendees who purchase a Diamond level ticket will have the opportunity to take a photo with Dan, plus network with like-minded peers in the Diamond Lounge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. Africa is home to more than a billion people, where a majority have limited or no access to vehicle financing. that same year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). Stay tuned, and please feel free to share with anyone looking for a new opportunity!

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The companies of the future will be based on hybrid work models, sustainability, and impact. Business digitization, an opportunity for Taiwan and Mali. A spirit of belonging that fosters mutual help between companies and the identification of new opportunities within the network.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2021

Chances are strong that you used the pandemic as an opportunity to reset your business and redefine success. All business scorecards should reflect a company’s finances, customer interactions, internal workflows, and growth/learning initiatives. Yet most entrepreneurs have spent the past year in survival mode, not planning mode.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 10, 2025

One byproduct of this movement, especially during the blitzscaling era , were new startups in areas such as finance, healthcare, housing, education, using venture capital to acquire customers at accelerated rates. And 17% of high schools dont have a counselor, according to the Education Department. This is great!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We were invited to participate by the Global Leaders Initiative, which aims to bring key networks together to find solutions that address the challenges of sustainable development. There’s an opportunity here. “SDG Lab is a multi-stakeholder initiative that contributes to the implementation of the UN SDGs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2023

Capital is often viewed only as an opportunity for an infusion of money into a business to get it started or grow and scale your company. It’s a misconception that to IPO or exit successfully, you must have outside financing and investor capital. To raise or not to raise? Outside investment is not mandatory when starting a business.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Wesabe taught us that social doesn't necessarily make managing finances online more appealing--and given Facebook's propensity to change privacy settings, I'm not sure a lot of people are going to want to manage their money on Facebook. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 2, 2022

The theme for this summit is “Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Future,” which responds to the hemisphere’s most pressing issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, threats to democracy, the climate crisis, and a lack of equitable access to opportunities. . Georgia Barbosa , Brazil, cofounder of Afroricas.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Some had a wild idea and found a way to sell it; others accidentally bumped into an opportunity they were able to seize and monetize. No bank would even consider us for financing, so we had to find a way to make it all work. But there is an opportunity to do things differently. A tough situation to say the least.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report , far exceeding its peers. It’s also a great opportunity for startup founders.” But there’s some evidence to suggest the bank is turning a corner.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Millennials and younger generations are acutely aware of the consequences of global warming (and how cattle contribute to methane emissions) and they are using their purchasing power to support sustainable-first brands. Microalgae, a sustainable substance rich in health benefits, is another promising area of development.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

There is a second set of career discussions I have even more frequently than my “angel yourself” advice but this type is almost never discussed publicly in blogs, which tend to emphasize only billion-dollar opportunities, 20-something technical founders and Silicon Valley elitism. She joined Yahoo! ” (Warren Buffett).

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Onevest

APRIL 21, 2015

On the other hand, the large quantity can be looked at as a sea of opportunities just waiting to be explored. But how can you identify the right investment opportunity for you when facing such an onslaught of possible avenues? Sustainability: Some startups by their very nature may be “flash-in-the-pan.” Photo credit: [link].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

GreenSTACS launched last month in a collaboration with Bluecell Intelligence to help companies certify and monitor green and sustainability-related loans and bonds. STACS’ goal is to make GreenSTACS “the common infrastructure” for ESG financing and impact monitoring, he added.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 9, 2023

Why miss out on such a great learning opportunity? The takeaway from that tale isn’t about speed, but rather healthy and sustainable growth. If you’re growing in a financially stable, sustainable manner and are happy with the pace, that’s great. I’m not in the position to dictate what works for other businesses.

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Beyond her 20 years of finance and investing experience, Fazeela has traveled the world and is actively engaged in the UN Women’s initiative. Many other women and girls are not given a voice or opportunity to chart their path?—?something We asked her a few questions about her impressive background: What led you to Revolution?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. Venture capital is a talent game, which starts with the team that’s inside Upfront.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

From managing finances to overseeing operations, marketing, and customer service, it can quickly feel like there are never enough hours in the day. Accounting and Bookkeeping Managing finances is crucial for every small business, but it can also be time-consuming and prone to human error.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

These agents can work independently or collaboratively with human users, performing customer service, marketing, finance, and operations management functions. This ensures smooth operations and sustainable growth. For example, start with a chatbot for customer service before integrating AI into marketing and finance.

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Source Link

MAY 10, 2022

The growing momentum around entrepreneurship-led economic development presents opportunities to bridge gaps, reinvigorate economies and drive more equitable outcomes, not just here in the United States, but across the world. Take a demand-driven approach. More rural resources and community success stories from Don can be found at: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

They wanted opportunity. Defy teaches them personal finance like how to keep a checking account, the difference between debt and equity, what cashflow is and so forth. They are Chinese immigrants and as he said directly, “They gave me every opportunity to succeed. And they didn’t want pity. They wanted to learn. And the results?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

MycoWorks , a company making a fungal-based biomaterial that can replace leather, brought in a fresh round of funding — $125 million in Series C financing — to fund a production plant for scaling the manufacture of its flagship product Reishi. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

September 21, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the establishment of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) which will work to increase access to institutional capital for women- and minority-owned startups.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 30, 2021

We are brainstorming a new solution to a widespread challenge in many countries: how to develop a self-sustaining, independent local tech ecosystem. The private sector has already identified this opportunity. Its investment activities include the Diaspora Finance Initiative (DFI), AFFORD Diaspora Grants, and the AFFORD Business Club.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The contribution of these enterprises is pivotal to the country’s economy yet they remain underserved by traditional banking institutions making it hard for them to access the financing needed to grow. It used the financing to fund its growth which included adding Leja to its portfolio.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Getting financing for the contract was a struggle. Together, we have started a charity called It’s a Girl Thing, which provides menstrual cups to young girls and their mothers and teachers to enable them to stay in school with a sustainable eco-friendly solution. My first contract was in Honduras, and all the bid docs were in Spanish.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We asked three venture capital firms investing at the intersection of proptech and climate tech about how a focus on reducing emissions can trim a building’s carbon footprint and offer new opportunities for returns. Those that survive will have an opportunity to expand market share.”. And the potential market is enormous.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Meeting your goals as an entrepreneur often requires long days and long nights, navigating stressful decisions and finances, and dealing with rejection and redirection. Self-care is an important part of creating a work-life balance that helps you keep your pace and get back on track to sustained success. What does burnout look like?

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