Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 24, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Marie Flore Morett, owner of Delices de Marie Florett , has worked to create a welcoming community in Haiti to empower women to seek employment opportunities and work to decrease the job and wage inequalities present in Haiti. By Caroline Sachdeva. Passion in the workplace. For Marie, creating is imperative.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

Entrepreneurship Professor Michael Goldberg has this to say about finding your niche : “Before entrepreneurs should think about expanding, they need to show that they are solving a problem and making a place in the community for their initial customer base.”. Understand your audience and educate your community.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Damaris, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, is working hard to combine her love for her home country of Nicaragua and her love of tourism to give back to those in her country, providing employment and education opportunities across her community. “I cannot change the world, but I can contribute to make it a better place to live.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

With my extensive knowledge in complex investigations involving trafficking organizations, I thought, “How can we give back to our community?”. We named it Operation Rose because my father, who lost his battle to cancer in January 2017, used to pass out roses in church—simply because it made people happy.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Katherine has developed some essential tips and tricks through her experiences in digital marketing to share with the YLAI community. Moreover, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, “communication is digital, which requires you to make a strong digital impact to target audiences,” she stresses.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Antonio Lennert , a member of EO Canada Bridge, is an entrepreneur, designer and community builder. He is the co-founder and CEO of Surf the Greats , Canada’s largest brand and community for surf education, adventure and lifestyle on the Great Lakes and beyond. Canada is not known to be a surfing hotspot,” said Lennert.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

H erbert Dwyer , a United States Marine Corps Veteran, co-founded EMPEQ in 2017, leveraging his prior experience in the energy field. Sutton, an entrepreneur, is a Board Member of YPO, a global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives, and the Nevada Policy Research Institute.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Entrepreneurship can empower individuals and communities limited in resources. Someone with a good entrepreneurial spirit will look for ways to improve a community and its integrity through its businesses and missions. Unfortunately, in 2017, Surcos Argentinos shut down due to a change in its business model, management, and mission.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Nayleen, a 2017 YLAI fellow, is from a small rural village in the province of Los Santos, Panama. She saw a need for local artisans in this community to be given the same opportunities as those in the modern industry. By Elise Kemp. Growing up, Nayleen Quintero was surrounded and nurtured by Panamanian folklore. Nayleen Quintero. “It

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a community of entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs everywhere. Margee Moore of BigOrange Marketing shared that, “The community of peers is so very helpful. At EO, we celebrate and support entrepreneurs on World Entrepreneurs’ Day—and every day! It helps you realize you are not alone.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 30, 2021

Dapper Labs came out of an incubator called Axiom Zen back in 2017. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Mar 22, 2021 Preparing Communities for the Climate Crisis Nick Grossman — Mar 20, 2021 Bitcoin as Battery. Financings don’t really interest me but companies do. And this is a fascinating company.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Neish’s hard work of creating a sustainable trans rights movement has blossomed far beyond his expectations. In the time since TransWave’s beginnings, Neish has made sure to focus on setting up roles of ‘ambassadors’ to support the work of the organization and provide more opportunities for the local community. “I

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

I had the support of other business owners in the community who encouraged me to leave. In 2017, I started my own facilities maintenance company, Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). In 2017, I started my own facilities maintenance company, Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). million in 2021. IFSH ranked No.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 14, 2022

In the age of community-funded projects, why would a web3 project want to take funding from venture capitalists? In a section called Kitty Down , Packy describes the challenges that the Dapper Labs team went through between late 2017, when CryptoKitties launched, and the summer of 2020, when Top Shot launched. It is a good question.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In fact, the San Francisco-based company started out in solutions-based journalism, providing content around communities and people who wanted to drive outcomes. When Countable pivoted in 2017, Canaan Partners invested in the seed round and assisted the company’s transition into an enterprise SaaS organization. “A

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2024

I quickly realized after joining a Forum that EO wasn’t just there to help you get rich but to support the complete entrepreneur, from wealth creation to emotional support, community, and education. Identifying Blind Spots In 2017, my Forum approached me and suggested that I had a work-life balance issue.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

2017 feels like a very long time ago. Yet, as I mark five years leading the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) as its CEO, it’s a good time to reflect on five key insights gained from such a remarkable community of business founders. How can I help them grow as individuals, and help us grow as a community? A global pandemic.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

She is working hard to achieve this goal by encouraging community members to master different skills, such as sewing and garment design. . Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Community issues motivating action.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

What issues in your community drove you to create this company? It could take weeks longer to import goods, but they do it because they don’t even know that someone in their community provides it as well. LinkUp launched in 2017. Read on to learn more about Kenna’s journey and experience expanding her small business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Cityblock Health , a company that provides healthcare services to low-income communities, is now commanding a high-priced valuation of over $1 billion after venture capitalists poured $160 million into the company. The company first spun out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs in 2017 and initially partnered with EmblemHealth.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

marking its highest level since 2017. However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Mat, a former senior engineer at Toyota, was made redundant during the closure of the automotive industry in Australia in 2017. Mat and I stayed on for the next few days, and we were wholeheartedly embraced by the EO community during our visit. Shivani Gupta, EO Queensland.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 22, 2019

I also developed some conferences in my community to educate as many people as possible, since it is better to be informed than to be misinformed. I teach people in my community and on social media to always “Stop, Reflect, and Verify” before sharing any kind of information. Japhé has been a YLAI Network member since 2017.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017 to support founders actively working on building their companies. We’re also very excited to launch a co-founder matching service for our community soon. You can register for the new course today.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Building Startup Communities is the Way to Economic Growth and Recovery. All across the country, communities need to jump start and rebuild their economies. The research and evidence supporting the impact and value of startup community building is strong. Ecosystems need to intentionally build and nurture a startup community.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

Coordinated by Delaware Prosperity Partnership and innovation-supporting partners from throughout the Delaware business community and beyond, Startup302 launched in 2020 and has provided $800,000 in funding to 52 ventures since 2021. Full contest details and the application also are at s tartup302.org.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

Create a Social Impact Day that includes creating and celebrating social impact on one day globally by encouraging chapters to host a Social Impact Learning Event, which would include education on ROI to businesses, key executive involvement, member spotlights and community action.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

When I first covered the company in 2017, the startup was focused on a consumer app. On the company’s website , you can browse thousands of pre-trained machine-learning models, participate in the developer community with your own model, download datasets and more. It’s a community-driven platform with a ton of repositories.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A 2017 Pew Research poll found that 50% of women reported gender discrimination at work, compared with 19% of men. As a woman in a STEM career and leadership role, I strongly encourage you to promote STEM learning and exploration among the young women in your community. It doesn’t get much better than that!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2018

For instance, at our 2017 Ameren Accelerator —a program in partnership with UMSL Accelerate that connects entrepreneurs with investors and opportunities in the energy-tech sector—one of our startups, Rebate Bus, was wrestling to find a unified voice. Imagine having a dozen partners keeping you striving toward your next milestone.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 13, 2020

At Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) , our mission remains engaging business owners at every stage with the tools, education and community necessary to learn and grow to new levels of leadership , in business and beyond. As a member of EO Puerto, he’s also seen the company through the 2017 hurricane Maria.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

For example, in 2017, we returned to Kansas City at the invitation of our co-investors and friends at the KCRise Fund to participate in a community event and meet with their portfolio. And we congratulate the Kansas City startup community.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

SafeBoda has rarely announced any of its funding rounds since its inception in 2017, but people who know the company’s dealings say it has raised over $20 million. The company counts more than 25,000 drivers who have completed over 40 million orders in both markets. .

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

If you watch the short video below you’ll have a great sense on what is uniquely LA in 2017 — hearing from Mayor Garcetti, Kobe Bryant, Tyra Banks, Baron Davis and so many great advocates for the uniqueness of our city and some of our key stats. link] There’s no doubt in my mind that “LA is having a moment” and both VCs and LPs realize it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2023

Our goal is to help clients with everything from token launches and community building to social media management and PR communications. We quickly became one of the leading agencies in the space, all because of word-of-mouth marketing through influencers and community builders. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 6, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success. To highlight Andrea’s hard work and perseverance, we asked her to answer the following questions and provide key advice to fellow YLAI Network members looking to make a difference in their community. By Jewelle Saunders.

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