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ACA Releases 2023 Angel Funders Report

Angel Capital Association

For Immediate Release 2023 Angel Funders Report Released Overland Park, KS (December 6, 2023) – The Angel Capital Association (ACA) has released the Angel Funders Report for 2023. It’s supported in large part by the Angel Investor Foundation.

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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

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Entrepreneurs are key contributors to job creation and economic stability, so your long-term strategy should include ways to support their success by building effective entrepreneurship ecosystems. How can you get others on board to help support your vision? How can your programming be sustainable and live beyond this grant cycle?

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Data today, 3-5 years later will not support that notion though. We’ve also had some success in convening ecosystem actors to discuss and share programs, refer entrepreneurs, etc. Today, I have asked some key funders to consider requiring ecosystem asks vs asks from individual organizations.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

We used Dumbo as a reference and talked about how the critical mass of Two Trees buildings created a neighborhood with multiple destinations. and figure out how to support them. What kind of support do they need? These folks could become clients, funders, or good places to connect and work over the long term.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

Impact Hub

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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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

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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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

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.