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Budding entrepreneurs receive a head start with startup education scholarships

NZ Entrepreneur

A new batch of enterprising New Zealanders are being given the opportunity to fast track their ventures from idea through to startup, thanks to an online education initiative backed by Callaghan Innovation and entrepreneur education platform Startup NZ. Dr Jenny Douché, Callaghan Innovation. Adam Townsend, Bike Matrix.

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GEN New Zealand releases manifesto to encourage greater entrepreneurship

NZ Entrepreneur

Like all entrepreneurs, he looks for and takes advantage of opportunities while managing risk. We would like people who are in, and who interact with, the entrepreneurial ecosystem, to support our key messages and initiatives and create a more entrepreneurial Aotearoa,” Moskovitz says.

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Bielefeld survey highlights an emerging B2B, crypto, deep tech ecosystem

TechCrunch

Unfortunately, Bielefeld suffers from the same ailment the rest of Germany is subject to: Most startups gravitate to Berlin, followed by Munich, then Hamburg (according to an initiative from UnternehmerTUM in Munich). Especially with the superb backing of the Founders Foundation, the startup ecosystem in Bielefeld has a bright future.

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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

Having spent close on a decade working in and reporting on our small but burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a decade before that “building my chops” in other various entrepreneurial endeavours, I am familiar with the toll that entrepreneurship can exact on founder mental health.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

Nine months later, Audrey became the first executive to appear visibly pregnant on the cover of Inc magazine. Yet, and this will come as a surprise to no one who has ever managed a hospitality business, things weren’t going *perfectly* at the four-year-old startup with 10,000+ members—which feels like the standard female founders are held to.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. We literally are a land in which people left their stable East Coast homes in search of opportunity and a chance to start fresh.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. But as with most crises, opportunities for experienced investors who have learned from prior down cycles are still plentiful.

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