Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2016

Steer clear of any accelerator and incubator programs that invest in their participant businesses but also take ownership. As someone who’s dedicated her career to helping small-scale entrepreneurs grow their businesses, I’ve heard many skeptics say a business accelerator program is just a cover for startups looking to increase capital.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 10, 2023

Future Founders Day: Bring Impact Hub to your city Are you ready to transform your social business idea into reality? Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp At the Impact Hub Founders Academy, we’re committed to helping you navigate the challenges of initiating and growing a social enterprise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Peer to peer transactions and retail trading are two of the biggest drivers of crypto adoption on the continent. Before starting Nestcoin, founders Yele Bademosi and Taiwo Orilogbon led the charge at Bundle Africa, one of the continent’s well-known crypto trading platforms. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Entrepreneurs who want to accelerate growth and retain more of their equity may understand SPACs, peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding, but for some startups, securing a credit facility is also a viable option. were shuttering to slow the spread of the then-novel coronavirus. Seems like a long time ago. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Like most baby boomers, I went through (and left behind) an Eastern mysticism phase many years ago, and I was leery of revisiting it. To my surprise and delight, the weekend was light on religion and heavy on simple, practical tools for making better use of your mind, and thus, your life. Focus your message to focus your customer’s awareness.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking. There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. The success of YCombinator and Techstars has spawned countless new incubators. Don't want to learn code?

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The biggest challenge for a startup founder is knowing where to focus. Though startup coaching has boomed during the pandemic, many founders are turned off by high-pressure sales tactics, a lack of widely accepted industry standards, and as many amateurs as experts. As a founder, it’s your job to listen, adapt and act.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

They helped attendees meet self-defined aspirations, encouraged an entrepreneurial spirit and peer networking, offered one-to-one clinics and workshops with GoDaddy guides. ” Beatrice , El Shaddai founder of My Helper. . Access to capital and network is the most critical barrier to entrepreneurship for underserved communities.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

hundreds of incubators and accelerators, giving the impact start-up ecosystem the much-needed. Amit Bhatia, Founder of Aspire Impact and Aspire Circle, spoke about the ‘much-needed’. incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. programs, across 60 countries to India.”

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. What I will say is many institutional investors require them, and fair or not, most investors view the pitch deck as a proxy for how the founders will present to customers. ” And, surely, it “can” work.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

The number one challenge women face is a significant disadvantage in securing access to venture capital funding compared to their male peers. Ask for More - Gloria Kolb, CEO and co-founder of Elidah and mentor at UConn's Technology Incubation Program shared with Business News Daily that women need to change their pitching strategies.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Every time I talk to someone about the work we do at Founders’ Co-op , I have to first explain that we don’t really care about technology or business ideas per se. This has not been our experience.

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Impact Hub

JULY 30, 2021

Besides founding and leading INMI in Valencia, Spain, she is also the co-founder of ALDEA, a social organization where she develops consulting projects, training and territorial-community development through sustainability, interculturality and social innovation. . 10 years ago, my purpose was to run a social business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

And you can tell that the founders have thought greatly about creating the right kind of space for startup companies. [if you're not old enough to get the reference between this image and the title you can click on the image for a prompter]. We know prices of deals, compensation, who’s doing well / poorly, etc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thus, the original list of 101 companies has ballooned to 267 as of February 2022 ( YC list isn’t exhaustive; some founders opt out of being listed ). Thus, the original list of 101 companies has ballooned to 267 as of February 2022 ( YC list isn’t exhaustive; some founders opt out of being listed ). have joined this desirable list.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

in countless consortia focused on advancing the EU efforts on the social economy (for example the Better Incubation efforts mentioned in the Dec 2021 EU Social Economy Act) . Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future? These days I strongly oscillate between the two options and often find this question difficult to answer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Other investors include the likes of early Zoom investors Maven Ventures, Bill Tai and Matt Ocko, early-stage funds Character.vc, Active Capital, Global Founders Capital, Rackhouse.vc Fathom founder and CEO Richard White. and Soma Capital, as well as the CEOs of Reddit, Twitch, Cruise, Mercury, People.ai, Snapdocs and Shogun.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. Our mission is to build locally rooted and globally connected entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

“Every time a recurring meeting is added to a calendar, a kitten dies,” says Chuck Phillips, co-founder of MeetWell. Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I have been involved with a high profile one in Los Angeles – Launchpad LA – and we’ve decided to make a shift so I thought this was a good time for reflection. My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago . We had a specific goal in mind. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically.

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

” — Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective, April 2018. Looking back on this, in a way, it’s silly; yet, for seed-stage investors and the founders we back, getting companies from seed to Series A is a really important milestone, a milestone I’ve likened to getting into the graduate school of one’s choice.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I had to laugh a bit reading it. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. Market Size.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. ” It’s true. It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) Expert Networks.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 17, 2023

At Impact Hub Founders Academy, we are determined to help you tackle the challenges of starting and growing a social enterprise. In our first-ever Future Founders day event, we covered the ins and outs of getting started. Are you ready to turn your social business idea into a reality? Here’s what you need to know.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

For years I saw myself as the new guy in VC but then you wake up one day and realize that 50% of your peers have been doing it for less time than you and time has moved on. ” And then there are incubators and accelerators. Somehow the world seems to be spinning faster these days than just a few years ago. It’s exhausting.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 17, 2023

At Impact Hub Founders Academy, we are determined to help you tackle the challenges of starting and growing a social enterprise. In our first-ever Future Founders day event, we covered the ins and outs of getting started. Are you ready to turn your social business idea into a reality? Here’s what you need to know.

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communities peer-to-peer networking entrepreneurship 36

Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As a network we inspire, connect and enable changemakers at scale — being part of a peer-to-peer network like ours, will enable organizations to provide better access to markets, knowledge, talents and resources to their members and beneficiaries. . We believe in taking action for a better future, together.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

Venture firms wanted to meet talented Black founders but didn’t know where to start to find them. In fact, one of the biggest criticisms I personally get when I suggest that founders should “get introductions to VCs” is that this might reinforce existing racial imbalances by providing easier access to White professionals than people of color.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. But how do you do that? .

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