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CCNY Student-Led Start-up Organovis Wins USD25,000 Top Prize at Standard Chartered 2023 Women in Tech Incubator Competition

American Entrepreneurship

Sponsored by Standard Chartered Americas (“Bank”), the WiT competition is part of the Bank’s longstanding partnership with the Zahn Innovation Center (“Zahn Center”) at CCNY to promote greater gender diversity in the technology sector. We are thrilled to be named the winner of this year’s Women in Tech Incubator competition.

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How To Empower Your Entrepreneurial Mindset: Rick Sapio Shares 10 Ways To Take Agency in Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Against doctor’s orders, Rick refused chemotherapy, the standard of care for his diagnosis, then checked himself out of the hospital and took agency for his own health. Take agency in crisis Rick demonstrated agency by refusing to accept the standard treatment protocol without exploring alternatives and second opinions. “To

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Social Enterprise Incubator’s 5th Cohort focuses on Climate and Health Equity

American Entrepreneurship

Members benefit from the local community of investors, entrepreneurs, mentors, and partners during six months of rigorous hands-on learning. “These ventures are truly setting a new standard for RevHub,” says Juan Carrillo, Hub Director at RevHub.

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Setting Kids Up to Fail

This is going to be BIG.

How likely are they to become lifelong learners when we''ve never had more emphasis on standardized testing, and therefore standardized learning? When I tell them stuff about adding value to the community, creating a personal brand, etc., It''s like when people ask me how to get into venture capital. it just doesn''t compute.

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Meet Revolution Growth’s Newest Partner: Fazeela Abdul Rashid

Revolution

Joining us as a Partner, Fazeela formerly served as Managing Director of Consumer and Americas at Temasek International, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore. Tell us about your experience as a UN Women Metro New York Chapter board member. At Temasek, Fazeela was instrumental in building the firm’s direct U.S.

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Building products for future needs with Bling Capital and Shift on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

The company was among the first online-only used car marketplaces and pioneered many of the services now standard across the industry. Already part of the TechCrunch Live on Grip community? Toby Russell is a veteran entrepreneur and helped to found Shift. Click this link to add this session to your agenda! PDT/2:30 p.m.

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Recycling

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

There is no standard recycling percentage in the market, but I think 20-25% is fairly common. It allows us to put the entire fund to work and recoup the management fee load. I think it has made a difference for us over the years. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Mar 22, 2021 Preparing Communities for the Climate Crisis.