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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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Banking Fintech Closes Series A to Expand Community Bank Deposit Management Platform

American Entrepreneurship

The country’s only tech-enabled deposit network is leaving behind competitor networks that still use manual processes While fintech funding languished in 2023 , deposit management platform ModernFi is an exception going into 2024, having just closed an $18.7 million Series A funding round. The current round adds to a $4.5

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Orbiit raises seed funding to automate the interactions within an online community

TechCrunch

Orbiit , a startup that automates the interactions within an online community, has raised a $2.7 Orbiit says its platform handles the communications, matching, scheduling, feedback collection and analytics for people connecting with each other in an online community.

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5 Reasons to Be a Part of a Business Community

Smart Hustle Magazine

Being a part of the business community plays a critical role in the success of small business owners. If you look at the thriving small business owners, you will find that most of them are outstanding community players. To be a part of a community offers you much-needed guidance to survive in a difficult time like now.

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ESHIP Communities Ecosystem Builder: Edgar Galicia

Forward Cities

More information about the ESHIP Communities program can be found here. Edgar is one of the founding members of our ESHIP Communities Council in Kansas City. I found ‘me’ in the community and discovered that I could invest all my knowledge and abilities into helping the quality of life of the people.

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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

TechCrunch

The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments. Its business-to-business model has picked up steam, too, as 500 micro and small merchants use the hybrid platform (about half use Qwili’s NFC-enabled smartphones).

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How EO Philippines Members are Helping an Entire Community Displaced by Typhoon Ondoy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

EO Philippines members are determined to help one particular community that was devastated by the natural disaster. The Ayala Foundation , which works to build productive, creative and self-reliant Filipino communities, works with the cobblers-turned-farmers to provide skills and opportunities. How Cobblers Became Farmers.