TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. hit nearly $1.8

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 10, 2020

First up, Jeff welcomes Armando Ojeda, certified mentor with SCORE of Southeast Michigan , an organization that provides free mentorship, networking and educational services and resources to entrepreneurs. Workshops available for entrepreneurs through SCORE. The different types of mentors available through SCORE.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2019

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is committed to helping entrepreneurs learn and grow to new levels of leadership by providing learning opportunities, mentorship and access to experts. Nicole Chan, founder, Nicole Chan Studios. “I Mark Worster, co-founder, 30Turn. “1. Photo courtesy of Nicole Chan Studios.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort. Each founder showcased the innovative business ideas they developed and refined throughout the Bridge2 program. The Bridge2 Program has been fundamental to the next phase of my business.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tom Shields, Executive Recruiter & Founder of Shields Group Search , a search firm specializing in supporting the hiring needs of early-stage startups. Before founding Shields Group Search, Thomas hired the founders of companies for a VC studio at the inception stage. The impact is most exciting.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

These resources include funding, access to industry experts, mentorship, workshops, fireside chats and visibility into adidas’ networks. Office Hours’ Workshops: Each month, entrepreneurs attend workshops led by experts from adidas’ internal and external networks. With at least one Black and/or Latinx founder.

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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. Clear progress was made in marketing and sales, which was directly targeted by the three GoDaddy workshops, and financial management was prevalent.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 18, 2024

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the second cohort of Bridge2 founders took the stage at Tulsa’s Agora Event Center for Demo Day. Participants in the program engaged in weekly workshops and coaching calls, refining their revenue models, competitive strategies, and customer acquisition. The other side of it is experiential.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

CharmHealth goes beyond providing just funding or mentorship to winners. It provides access to resources, educational materials, and workshops focused on EHR-related topics, helping entrepreneurs refine their product offerings and enhance their market readiness. Another crucial aspect of the Innovation Challenge is knowledge exchange.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. Our goal is to invest in, coinvest with, and/or recruit founders in transition. At the same time, to respect founders’ time, scouts should mention their real ability to make an investment happen. Just confusing minority founders even more.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

To be eligible, one of the business founders has to be black or a person of African descent. 6) SoGoal Foundation Black Founder Startup Grant. To date, this venture capital firm has invested over $7 million in more than 130 businesses led by these underrepresented founders. Website: [link]. Website: [link]. Website: [link].

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

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. They also look for certain traits in the founder such as vision, passion, and leadership to build the right team.

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Impact Hub

MAY 27, 2024

adidas Community Lab: Empowering latino/a/e social entrepreneurs in Portland The 2023 adidas Community Lab, in collaboration with Impact Hub, supports Black and Latino/a/e social entrepreneurs by providing resources, funding, and mentorship. This year’s programme graduated eight participants, each receiving $75,000 in funding.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 18, 2019

As a finalist, Merce was awarded a place on a 6-month bespoke incubation program at Impact Hub Madrid – Alameda and mentorship with Leyre Romero, also an entrepreneur and the co-founder of the social consultancy firm Areteia, with whom she still enjoys a close and trusty relationship. Merce uses all kinds of tools to get ahead.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When facing the challenges of starting a business, a founder needs to be resourceful—and that includes having a network of contacts who are supportive and available to help. Seek out industry associations, taking advantage of community events such as conferences, workshops, training opportunities, and more.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 27, 2019

The Racial Equity Institute training workshop during the Pittsburgh conference was an influential vehicle for raising the profile of equity and inclusion issues that have led to the racial inequities that exist in the United States today. He is the founder and principle of SMN Square headquartered in Richmond, VA.

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Startup Blogpost

JULY 21, 2023

Curran Van Waarde , Founder, CallScaler Leverage Virtual Job Fairs for Diversity A top strategy to scale hourly hiring, while ensuring quality and diversity, is leveraging virtual job fairs. For example, we incorporated cultural awareness workshops, unconscious bias training, and mentorship opportunities within our onboarding process.

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Startup Blogpost

APRIL 21, 2023

We’ve gathered insights from 12 industry leaders, including CEOs, founders, and directors, to shed light on the top benefits that startup employees desire. Seminars, workshops, and events are excellent venues for employees to meet others in their field and expand their network.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

Just kidding: this isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme or some woo-woo-workshop. I’d realised that co-owning a branding studio wasn’t working for me, so in the long run it would have been terrible for my co-founder as well. I also took on a few pro-bono projects from a couple of startup mentorship programs, just because I wanted to help?—?and

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. VC went to startups with at least one woman on the founder team.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Shawn Taikratoke, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mozee. Outside of his professional endeavors, Shawn is known for his dedication to mentorship and community building within the software engineering field. A startup focused on redefining the human journey. What motivated you to launch your startup?

transportation

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

As proud as we are of impact we have made for developers, we really want to scale that impact, and that’s why we decided to create a much more open product experience,” founder and chief executive officer Weiting Liu told TechCrunch. Its investors include TechStars, 500 Startups, WI Harper and Y Combinator. “As

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Impact Hub

JULY 14, 2021

New Roots 2020 featured 36 highly engaged ventures, 34 coaches from GoDaddy and 23 Impact Hub mentors , who worked together throughout 24 workshops between June 2020 and March 2021. As the target groups differed by location, the entrepreneurs’ needs and challenges were also different.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 11, 2022

Some tips for attending networking events include going to as many panels and workshops as possible and being engaged while doing this. Partnering with bigger brands can work as a mentorship. Chris Mut , CEO and Founder of nerdytec. Have the courage to show what makes what you represent special and exciting to others. .

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2022

With Ofek Ron, Co-founder and CEO of Plantish, Ronen Orr, Co-founder and CEO of Largix, and Geert Denutte, Founder of CGK Group. The company aims “to save the oceans and eliminate the need to consume marine animals by providing more sustainable, more nutritious and more delicious fish options,” says Ofek Ron, Co-founder and CEO.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

GSEA delivers on its vision to empower student entrepreneurs to become the world’s most influential change-makers by supporting them with mentorship, recognition and connections to take their businesses to the next level of success. In the 2022 GSEA Global Finals competition, Joe Knopp represented the United States.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Wellington UniVentures offers mentorship opportunities, access to pitch workshops and meetings where new ideas are screened, to name a few. “We When the time comes to put together a cap table, Pierre explains it’s a discussion between the university, its commercialisation office, company founders and investors. “We

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

As the Co-Founder and Executive Director of TransWave Jamaica , Neish is succeeding in his mission to increase the visibility of transgender Jamaicans, provide resources to change the narrative towards a positive reflection of the community, and emphasize the need for improved healthcare and safe spaces that meet the needs of the community.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Edlyft co-founder and CEO Erika Hairston never imagined herself as a “techie,” but was drawn to computer science while at Yale University—not that it was a cinch for her. “I Hairston and Ansong immediately began drilling down on Edlyft through YC mentorship and good, old-fashioned problem-solving.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Akshay Chaturvedi, founder and chief executive of Leverage Edu, told TechCrunch in an interview that he believes that eventually the firm that is going to serve the students best and emerge most successful will be the one that is physically closer to them, and not to the universities. “It’s one digital dashboard.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As the head of startup pipeline at Techstars, I’ve been getting on calls with founders, attending events, speaking on stages like TechCrunch’s Disrupt and hosting countless Twitter Spaces. Each time, I’ve been telling founders why they should join an accelerator. Saba Karim is director of the startup pipeline at Techstars.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TechCrunch Editorial is on the hunt for 200 early-stage founders to feature in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this September. All selected founders will get the opportunity to flash-pitch in front of investors and TechCrunch Editors. Are you ready? It’s 100% free to apply and to participate.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

In this episode, a wood furniture maker, a Church leadership recruitment firm executive, and a design agency founder talk about how they’ve been a success. Mentorship. Mentorship has been so important to me in building SmartHustle. Kat Cole mentioned her mentorship guidance in a recent interview with Dave Kerpen.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Some perks for this elite class of startups include full access to: TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Exclusive workshops Mentorship Training Free exhibition space on the show floor for all three days For investors, joining the network of Startup Battlefield will have its perks too. Refer a founder today. That’s huge.

disruption

TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

In a blog post , Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie said that the company had previously used the People & Co. In a blog post , Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie said that the company had previously used the People & Co. Beyond Substack, previous partners with People & Company include Porsche AG, Nike and Surfrider.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Where can new founders and budding entrepreneurs turn for expert advice to navigate the formative phases of building a startup? Head to TechCrunch Early Stage — a two-day virtual bootcamp that gives early founders (pre-seed through Series A) access to the leading experts across a range of essential entrepreneurial skills.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Buy a General Admission, Founder or Investor pass before the Friday, March 10 at 11:59 p.m. At Disrupt, you’ll hear from iconic tech leaders, top founders, CEOs, VCs and savvy industry experts across all eight stages. Beat the deadline to save $1,000 on TC Disrupt passes Once more for the folks in the back.

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