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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. But we also organize ourselves around practice areas and have done for the past 7 years and these include: SaaS, Cyber Security, FinTech, Computer Vision, Sustainability, Healthcare, Marketplace businesses, Video Games?—?each

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. Resourcing the Field: Imagine the collective of entrepreneurship ecosystem builders with diverse and sustainable resource streams to support and properly compensate those doing this work.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

I believe it is that this vision is too visionary for the majority of our existing leadership ecosystem. Today, I have asked some key funders to consider requiring ecosystem asks vs asks from individual organizations. Formal development opportunities around facilitation, communities of practice, and leadership are of interest.

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Circularity Tales: Accelerate2030 piloting the transition

Impact Hub

If you slept on it, Accelerate2030 is the world’s leading program for entrepreneurial solutions towards the Sustainable Development Goals. They believe in the power of business for transformative change and catalyze innovative startups in emerging and developing economies. .

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. I’d like to understand how to build effective multi-year plans that inspire and engage both funders of my own organization (and/or myself!) Lauren Mehler Pradhan. Hard skills. Dustin Shay.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We strive to educate our community that success takes commitment, strategy, discipline, and patience to sustain the journey and see long-term growth. The success of small/local business is incredibly vital for a sustainable economy. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. Lack of awareness: Eco… what?

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Standing up for Justice

Surdna Foundation

It took the board and staff a year to settle on language that captured our ethos and aspirations: fostering sustainable communities in the United States guided by principles of social justice. Finalizing the language of our mission statement was only the first step in answering the question, “What does it mean to be a social justice funder?”.

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