Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Janese, a 2017 YLAI Professional Fellow, is the founder of Jan’s Empowerment Institute (JEI) in Antigua and Barbuda. They also encouraged Janese to experience entrepreneurship from an early age by working with her mother selling clothing to supplement their income. By Caroline Sachdeva. “I Expanding reach beyond Antigua and Barbuda.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2019, the program was expanded in each of Ecuador’s provinces, providing “mini master’s degrees” in entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership. 2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success. How a Jamaican financial educator perseveres through adversity.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

LU UM was co-founded by Kurt Amundson, Lynn Heublein, and Nathan Harding in 2017 collectively leveraging their backgrounds in technology, robotics, and marketing. While at Ekso Bionics he co-founded and held leadership positions for nine years. Harding, now CTO and before LUUM, was the Innovator in Residence at MUH-TAY-ZIK | HOF-FER.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 30, 2022

Teaching and mentoring is at the heart of entrepreneurship. With our company leadership, we’re teaching how to guide their respective functions of the business. I learned from these teachers, but I was always delaying the actual jump into full-time entrepreneurship. This also changed how my leadership team needed me.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

InfoTrust has enjoyed a successful November: first by organizing its international Basket Brigade to benefit 435-plus families in need, and by being named to Ad Age’s 2017 Best Place to Work list, which includes 50 U.S. The Ad Age honor was undoubtedly impacted by the company’s core commitment to social entrepreneurship.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

2017 feels like a very long time ago. Each possesses the unique traits of entrepreneurship. Learning this is a team sport that is one of the most challenging leadership skills to master. Happy Global Entrepreneurship Week! By Dr. Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. The world has changed significantly.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

Derrek Kayongo, Global Soap Project; Andrew Wilson, ICC; Shamina Singh, Mastercard; Joshua Williams, Ashoka; Rosemarie “Bubu” Andres, EO Global Chair; and Warren Rustand, Dean of the EO Leadership Academy. both winners and non-winners), EO Cares Startup Engagement, and Young Entrepreneurship Academy. SDG 5 – Gender Equality. •

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

Tiera’s unique story spans a full career in the Air Force to the corporate world to entrepreneurship. In 2017, I started my own facilities maintenance company, Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). I’ve grown IFSH from US$54,000 in 2017 to US$4.9 I attribute these recent awards and recognition to our leadership team.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

She was able to collaborate with global citizens and achieve entrepreneurship results that she has transferred into her current professional experiences. Katherine has developed some essential tips and tricks through her experiences in digital marketing to share with the YLAI 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. Entrepreneurship is worth the risk.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Data abounds that more diverse leadership and teams lead to better company performance and female founders return 35 percent more on the dollar than their male counterparts. The post How to Fix a Racially Biased Venture Capital Model and Commit to Diversity in Entrepreneurship appeared first on StartupNation. Sign up now.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

He has managed to seamlessly weave charity into his life and businesses through social entrepreneurship, employee volunteer programs and much more. In fact, as the keynote speaker at the University of Oklahoma graduation in 2017, Piyush paid off one of the graduate’s student debts. You can even create self-sustaining giving.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies. As a result, the company launched Loship in late 2017, starting with food deliveries and then expanding into other verticals. Kamereo gets $4.6M

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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. Collaboration is at the cornerstone of entrepreneurship in my experience, and you need to build a support system with wise and trusted voices to keep you motivated. By Jewelle Saunders.

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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. It was at that event that we first met BacklotCars , a Kansas City-based online marketplace for wholesale used cars, and its co-founder/CEO, Justin Davis.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Acrew Capital , founded by Theresia Gouw, Lauren Kolodny, Mark Kraynak, Asad Khaliq and Vishal Lugani in 2019 Amplifyher Ventures : founded by Tricia Black, General Partner, the focuses on diverse leadership teams with a unique ability to create flywheel effects of growth in new markets. Secretary of Commerce.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Sales strategist Mary Crampton shares 8 predictions that will affect the way you sell in the […] Advice Entrepreneurship Magnify Consulting Sales and Marketing Supporter Content 10 ways to tell if your price is too low July 29, 2019 #nzentrepreneur Pricing strategy, part of your sales and marketing strategy, is key to growing your sales.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vienna, 10 November 2021 – As the Impact Hub Network continues to accelerate the transition to a more just and sustainable future, we are excited to announce an update on our leadership team. Tatiana Glad, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam (since 2008), brings diverse experience to our global leadership team.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

An achievement I am deeply proud of as I hand over the reins of leadership to the amazing leader Tatiana Glad and shift to the Board of the organisation to help with larger-scale partnerships and influence through social entrepreneurship policy. Global leadership pioneering meetings. LatAm SEED Program meeting, São Paulo 2017.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO at Front, a customer communication platform, is known for her values-driven leadership style and for championing top-down radical transparency. She has been recognized in Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2019, Inc Magazine’s Female Founders 100 2019, and Forbes 30 Under 30: Enterprise Tech 2017.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

FFI Ionix’s decision to stay and grow in our state is great news for Delaware and our leadership in the hydrogen economy,” said Governor John Carney. “We We recently announced investments in downtown Dover, and this expansion will bring even more activity to our state’s capital. About FFI Ionix FFI Ionix Inc.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2024

I want to thank Incyte’s leadership for their commitment to Delaware.” Incyte is a company with motivated leadership that is addressing complex health needs throughout the world. The post Incyte chooses to grow in Delaware with investment in new Wilmington site appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

These are women who have fought against all odds, made a mark in the business world and crafted their own brands of leadership. Global Shopping Festival broadcast in November 2017! Christina Teo and I first met over lunch where she shared with me the story of moving from the corporate world to entrepreneurship.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

PCOnline leadership actively searched sites in Delaware and throughout the region for a new location to grow EtailFlow before selecting space adjacent to its 80-employee headquarters in Prides Crossing off Route 4. EtailFlow expansion creating at least 45 new jobs over next three years WILMINGTON, Del.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs. Working with the Eris (now GrayRobinson) team, ACA worked to protect early stage tax-treatment in 2017’s Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA).

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

BCG (January 2018): “Companies that reported above-average diversity on their management teams also reported innovation revenue that was 19 percentage points higher than that of companies with below-average leadership diversity — 45% of total revenue versus just 26%.”.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer was inducted into the Oklahoma Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2017. She is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma, Leadership Oklahoma City, and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Oklahoma City. My experience is that we are in the midst of a generational leadership change, with a bright future ahead.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, CMS’s First State roots, history of hiring local talent and commitment to community involvement and sector leadership here helped drive its decision to continue to expand its engineering, manufacturing and sales footprint in Delaware. expansion to help meet market demands appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

I had the good fortune of providing leadership in an acquired business located in Orlando, FL while being an executive at a MedTech Fortune 500. We made the decision to return to Tampa to build our company after debuting our tech at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park in 2017. Why did you launch (or land) your startup in Orlando?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This funding round ensures Pryon’s continued leadership in transforming previously static content into actionable intelligence within academic, commercial, government, and nonprofit environments. Read Jablokov’s Letter from the CEO to learn more about Pryon’s vision for the future of work.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When we launched in 2017, we were a team of five engineers. When hiring engineers, we looked for people who were amazing technically but also understood our business, were customer focused, were passionate about entrepreneurship—and understood how they needed to work.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 26, 2019

Innovation is a hallmark of a vibrant society and is often most visible in the form of entrepreneurship. At the recent InBIA conference, there were a series of sessions dedicated to explore ”Equity in Entrepreneurship.” Does leadership of the entrepreneurial support organization look like the population they aim to serve?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

BCG (January 2018): “Companies that reported above-average diversity on their management teams also reported innovation revenue that was 19 percentage points higher than that of companies with below-average leadership diversity — 45% of total revenue versus just 26%.”.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 2, 2020

El número de emprendimientos, con al menos una mujer fundadora, que ha recibido inversión se ha duplicado desde el 2013 al 2017. Freiha: Desde la perspectiva de un mercado emergente, el mercado de inversiones ha prosperado en los últimos cinco años.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Martin Bell, who sits on Arowana’s advisory board, founded 100tasks.com to democratize entrepreneurship and is an expert in launching and hyper-scaling companies. Within only 100 days, new leadership transformed the tech platform, marketing mix, and rider operations–elevating it from laggard to leader.

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