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The New economy starts with Impact-Driven Entrepreneurs

Impact Hub

At Impact Hub, we have been working relentlessly towards this goal for the past 15 years, supporting impact entrepreneurs who put people and the planet at the forefront. In 2019, we ran over 270 successful entrepreneur support programs, generating 1,358 new projects that contributed to the creation of 4,695 jobs. Emploi et Moi .

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Melinda French Gates Sets Path to Empower Women Globally

American Entrepreneurship

She offers that full participation of women results in further economic growth, women’s political participation decreases corruption and peace agreements written with the involvement of are more durable. Overall, improvement in women’s health could add as much as $1 trillion to the global economy by 2040.

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Kenyan fintech Pezesha raises $11M backed by Women’s World Banking, Cardano parent IOG

TechCrunch

“We are building for the future and this means tapping new innovations for additional liquidity that allows us to offer affordable loans to SMEs,” said Moraa, a two-time founder, who started Pezesha after successfully exiting Weza Tele in 2015.

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program Supports Detroit Businesses (Episode 217)

StartupNation

Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation launched the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic growth by providing them with greater access to business education, financial capital and business support services. Are you an entrepreneur with a great story to share?

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21 Facts and Statistics from 2015 Research Reports

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Here are 21 noteworthy facts and statistics from this year: Statistics from “ 2015 Kauffman Index of Startup Activity, National Trends “: 1. The Kauffman Foundation’s Startup Activity Index rose in 2015—reversing a downward trend that started in 2010—experiencing the largest year-over-year increase from the past two decades.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

Pixm We are entrepreneurs making technologies to stop phishing breaches. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works. We believe email and web devices in the future will authenticate their own content.

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Curve Ball

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Nearly one-third of the 61% of total global petroleum and other liquids production that moved on maritime routes in 2015 transited the Strait of Malacca, the second-largest oil trade chokepoint in the world after the Strait of Hormuz. Given that Chinese growth is debt-financed, the PBOC would be called upon to tighten financial conditions.

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