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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round. In 2022-23, we started having a lot of demand for our programs so our premier program Founder Catalyst, that incubation program, started accepting more and more companies from outside the region.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

Instead, they're focused on "strategy", which lots of makers already have a good starting sense of. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces. They don't have to be big, contrived incubators--just a few couches and maybe a plug or two--and open wifi. Open your doors.

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. I don’t think my unwillingness to use it is generational (as in I’m 42 and don’t “get it&# ) – I think it’s a life stage issue. Add this new model to the mix. Wildfire Interactive.

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Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy

TechCrunch

For Greg Isenberg , a growth advisor to TikTok and former head of strategy at WeWork, entrepreneur homes are a signal of what the foreseeable future of building could look like. Habitants of the Launch House use the pool for recreation and brainstorm sessions, called “pool-storms.” ” Image Credits: The Launch House.

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How to get your business funded by a venture capitalist or angel investor

Founder Bounty

While some business owners use personal savings or loans to get started, many others turn to investors to help finance their dreams. A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success.

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Heyday raises $555M to buy up and scale more D2C brands in the Amazon marketplace universe

TechCrunch

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.