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How Gender Equality Improves Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This year’s IWD falls on 8 March, 2020, and its focus is #eachforequality, which recognizes that equality is not a women’s issue—rather, it’s an economic issue. Greater investment in women-owned businesses will also result in more women in business, and therefore stronger, more powerful social and professional networks.

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Why Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help

StartupNation

Copyright 2020 Lioncrest Publishing. By asking for help, I’m frequently able to accelerate solutions and growth at levels I wouldn’t have thought possible, and I’m strengthening my relationship with my network, as well. Others include Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), Vistage and Chief Executive Network. Author Mike Smerklo).

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Delaware’s 5th annual Startup302 funding contest accepting applications January 2 to 26

American Entrepreneurship

Prizes include cash grants from a pool of over $100,000 along with mentorship opportunities and connections with potential investors and key influencers. Startup302 strengthens Delawares innovation ecosystem by providing this access to entrepreneurs seeking financial and networking boosts for their businesses.

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15 Grant Programs for Minority and Women Business Owners

StartupNation

A total of nearly $63,000 in grants were made during 2020. The program also includes mentorship, access to online resources and the opportunity to be considered for even larger grants. Leading the global shift toward inclusive innovation, digitalundivided invested in over 1,500 Black and Latinx women entrepreneurs in 2020.

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Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color

TechCrunch

Resource also plans to build a national community of practice among ESO leaders of color and their funders to share best practices and “develop stronger capital and mentorship pathways” for Black, Latinx and Indigenous founders across the U.S. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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New Jersey announces $10M seed fund aimed at Black and Latinx founders

TechCrunch

billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . Also, Digitalundivided’s ProjectDiane 2020 report found that Black and Latinx women founders received just $1.7 ” On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point. As one evidence of that, last year Crunchbase found that as of Aug.

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

Think: How could you make money without an institutional investor, friends, family or internal networks? Accelerators allow ventures to define their products or services, quickly build networks and, most importantly, sit at tables they wouldn’t be able to on their own. The need to diversify the VC industry internally.