Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

But if you ever forget that supporting extraordinary founders is the whole game, and that your only job as an early stage investor is to identify them and help them progress, you have irretrievably lost the plot. Done right, the intensity of these relationships carries far beyond the duration of the program.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

AI Stage: Covers the latest artificial intelligence tech related to NLG, speech recognition, virtual agents, biometrics, RPA, deep learning platforms, reactive machines, and P2P networks. Security Stage: Puts on its white hat to share best practices for data protection, privacy regulations, information sharing, risk management.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For any entrepreneur to be successful in starting a business, they must have the right help and resources to support of their hard work. Accelerators are programs run by a range of organizations and funders to assist the best startup applicants they choose. Search out resources that are timely to starting and growing a small business.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

These are people whose business it is to support startups. They don't have a stake in it--and by not actively putting themselves out there as a source of capital, they're not in the information flow. The currency that VCs deal in that's just as important as any other is information.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Over the last few years, we have been supported by our dedicated volunteer and professional staff to continue to offer better member experience, expanded our professionalized education programs and continued to be the voice for protections and incentives for angel investors in the public policy arena. Read the first newsletter here.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

I asked them to treat me like a funder. The more metrics that we can collect about ecosystems the more we will be able to make informed decisions and provide targeted support as ecosystem builders.” This was a focused effort to support our mayor’s goal of investing in women-and-minority-owned small businesses.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

“Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. In the midst of supporting founders in their communities during a global pandemic, what do they wish they were more versed in? It is a unique combination of skills and the right mindset.” Kim Louis.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Note that I specifically am excluding from this analysis the firms that help investors access investment funds, e.g., CAIS , Context365 , iCapital Network , OurCrowd , Palico , PrimeAlpha , Trusted Insight. We support that with an active Slack community and a venture scout program.” Elite networks. Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I wish the small business ecosystem had something equivalent to the angel investor networks that support technology startups. In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

How they managed to rally other ecosystem stakeholders into supporting these efforts. Alexis Ehrhardt, President & CEO at Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce, explains “For two years, Danville Regional Foundation provided a fellow to support the development of the ecosystem. The need for an ecosystem builder.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It is a description for a new entrepreneurial support pilot program launching in Franklin County, OH in January of 2020. Armed with this wealth of first-hand information, the local entrepreneurial allies and business owners themselves split up into working groups to think creatively how to best address the identified barriers.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: I imagine you periodically have people joining not because they have cash to invest and want to lock it up in an illiquid, high-risk investment, but because they want to network with angels. Q: Do you offer your angels any technology tools to support portfolio construction for direct investments?

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is a description for a new entrepreneurial support pilot program launching in Franklin County, OH in January of 2020. Armed with this wealth of first-hand information, the local entrepreneurial allies and business owners themselves split up into working groups to think creatively how to best address the identified barriers.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Scouts are typically hired because they are well-networked and credible in an industry, geography, and/or community that a VC is focusing on. This role helps augment the candidate’s profile with personal branding, networks, track record, dealflow, and industry best practices. HOW TO GET A SCOUT ROLE. Solo GP Training. Calm Company. “We’re

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In simple terms, the local LP community owned 70% of the fund economics, the Managing Director owned 20% and Techstars owned 10%; we also paid Techstars a $50K annual fee to support the program’s back-office operations. Bottom line, Techstars needed cash. Killing the Golden Goose Organizations become what they’re staffed and led to do.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 17, 2022

Leveraging a depth and breadth of experience in entrepreneurial support and resource development, as well as best practices for diversity, equity, and inclusion, this role will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy for the scale-up of Forward Cities’ proprietary and custom capacity-building engagements.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 17, 2022

Leveraging a depth and breadth of experience in entrepreneurial support and resource development, as well as best practices for diversity, equity, and inclusion, this role will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy for the scale-up of Forward Cities’ proprietary and custom capacity-building engagements.

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