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Steve Case Testifies on Expanding Access to Capital Across America

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Todays hearing underscores this committees commitment to prioritizing entrepreneurship and innovation, and I thank you for your leadership in making this a shared nationaleffort. In 2011, I was part of the Presidents Council on Jobs and Competitiveness with several other leaders in finance and tech.

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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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Racial wealth disparity is a major barrier to thriving communities and economic growth. Creating inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems can help close the wealth gap , as entrepreneurship offers one of the greatest opportunities for personal wealth building. Culturally competent consulting service provider ThirdEye Network.

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Lessons from a bipartisan economic triumph, 10 years later

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As the co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the chair of the entrepreneurial subcommittee of the White House Council on Jobs & Competitiveness, I invested countless hours in late 2011 and early 2012 conferring with both Democrats and Republicans on the subject of innovation.

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What Does Social Entrepreneurship Look Like?

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This month, we’ll be engaging in an open dialogue that asks the question, “What does social entrepreneurship look like within our global EO community and beyond?” In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. The post What Does Social Entrepreneurship Look Like?

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

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Yet a series of issues have come to the forefront in recent years, each of which could have a meaningful impact on the future of tech entrepreneurship — and hence job creation and economic growth — in America: Immigration. That presents the tech entrepreneurship community with a genuine opportunity to influence outcomes.

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Melinda French Gates Sets Path to Empower Women Globally

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Leymah Roberta Gbowee , 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate and Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. Lee Badgett , an economist focusing on economic and social inequality for LGBTI people. Jacinda Ardern , the former prime minister of New Zealand who led with compassion and achieved impact.

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Starting a SPARK

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In this special feature, the co-founders of SPARK Schools discuss the state of education in their home country, the far-reaching value of their hybrid learning model and how, through entrepreneurship, they’re changing lives, one student at a time. As it turns out, entrepreneurship was the vehicle to do just that.