David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With a minimum investment of $7,000 and additional units in increments of $5,500, SDAC is ideal for new angel investors who want to gain hands-on experience and learn via workshops, meetings, and presentations. SDAC is about community building as much as portfolio expansion. It’s inclusive, transparent, and welcoming.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

Unfortunately, the blueprint and operating manual for how your CEO brain works doesn’t really come off in a pitch meeting. You need to start thinking about those people and treating your content like “pre-reads” for your e-mailed pitch deck and subsequent meeting.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Find all that — and connect with your early-founder community — at TC Early Stage 2021. Each event features a distinct lineup of startup experts, topics, workshops and interactive Q&As. Jessica McLean, director of Marketing and Communications, Infinite-Compute. This is not a lather, rinse, repeat scenario, folks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These companies were selected by TechCrunch editorial staff out of thousands of applications, and receive free exhibition space at Disrupt, special workshops, receptions and masterclasses on building and running a startup. From across the globe, these 200 companies are the top in their respective industries.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Read the interview: Richard Liew: For those who may not know who Ministry of Awesome is – let’s just assume there might be some – can you give us your elevator pitch? Lots of community discussions. They’ll get into whatever they can just to like find a community, find a home.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ’s Accelerator program empowers early-stage entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow and master their businesses. What, in your opinion, went right with your pitch to help secure their investment? Did you conduct any practice sessions?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In the short term, women founders can take action to boost their chances at VC success in the current investment climate, including leveraging their community and support network and building the necessary self-belief to thrive. It’s essential to make sure your sales, pitch and negotiation skills are on point. Get funded, as a woman.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

In fact, Mighty — led by founders Ben Goldhirsh, who previously founded GOOD magazine, and Dana Mauriello, who spent nearly five years with Etsy and was most recently an advisor to Sidewalk Labs — hopes to woo families with the pitch that it operates at the center of fintech, ed tech, and entertainment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 31, 2016

By employing local artisans to create my items, by investing in the artisan community of El Salvador, I am able to give back to my hometown. In doing so, workshops are built, jobs are created in the community and their kids are able to go to school. “A What was your journey to the EO GSEA Finals like?

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Now that a new community exists within Rise of the Rest?—?comprised days of programming last month, we presented a series of mainstage exchanges, interactive experiences and tactical workshops that could help our founders continue to build and ultimately scale great businesses all across the country. The real value is the networks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

We’re talking everything from legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, recruiting, pitch deck teardowns and more. Think of it as a condensed accelerator experience packed with workshops and highly interactive Q&As. We might be biased, but we’re not the only people raving about TC Early Stage.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. These discussions then bring further biases to the surface. It is all possible, but patience is key. Think of the worst-case scenario.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

That’s why we’re proud to announce TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200, a new era of our exciting startup community competition. If selected out of the thousands of applications, startups will receive full access to the show, exclusive workshops , training , perks and free exhibition space on the show floor for all three days.

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Impact Hub

MAY 27, 2024

adidas Community Lab: Empowering latino/a/e social entrepreneurs in Portland The 2023 adidas Community Lab, in collaboration with Impact Hub, supports Black and Latino/a/e social entrepreneurs by providing resources, funding, and mentorship. This year’s programme graduated eight participants, each receiving $75,000 in funding.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

Some of her projects include: (With Norris Krueger) 2020: AOM 2020 PDW “Entrepreneur-Led Economic Development: Entrepreneurial Communities through New Eyes… the Right Eyes!” 2019: Global Entrepreneurship Workshop: Advances in Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research – TBS Business School (Nov, 18th, Toulouse). “On

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

According to Diana Schwartz, Executive Director at River District Association, economic and societal shifts were having an enormous impact on the community’s economy, “For over 100 years, Danville, Virginia , has been a textile and tobacco powerhouse, and that is what the local economy depended on heavily for the majority of that time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

How to Turn Your Startup into a Social Star: From building your audience to creating viral content that moves your business forward, Redpoint’s Josh Machiz and Rashad Assir will tell you how to capitalize on the multiplier effects of genuine online communities. Don’t miss the closing reception.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The real super power of ecosystem mapping is how the mapping process and the actual map are used by the community as a catalyst to collaboratively strengthen the ecosystem. Most obviously, ecosystem maps can serve as a resource guide for entrepreneurs in the community. There are many benefits to ecosystem mapping.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. These funds are given to both community groups and individual artists in film, theatre, and dance. Applications are received throughout the year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It can be referred to as your elevator pitch. Your space caters to people who want to stay a while and connect with like-minded individuals to create community. While we understand that these are actually slightly different concepts, this statement provides condensed direction.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

LANCASTER, PA – On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 six local tech-entrepreneurs made pitch presentations to a panel of judges for a chance to win up to $10,000. The audience of more than 70 people who attended also had the opportunity to vote for their favorite pitch. About the TechCelerator@TheCandyFactory. appeared first on BFTP/CNP.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

At these shows-within-our-show, you’ll engage with smart, driven founders, and investors and members of your community, and have the opportunity to cross-collaborate with leaders from other industries. In these salon-like sessions, industry leaders will share their deep expertise, insights and trends within your sector. See you there!

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

Today, Impact Hub Bergen has grown into a community of more than 50 entrepreneurs and changemakers. The community here is diverse; it houses startups, established businesses, NGOs, creatives, freelancers, food entrepreneurs and more. The coworking space opened its doors in September 2011, as the first of its kind in Norway.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

One initiative that’s doing important work in this area is Start-Up Chile’s The S Factory , a pre-acceleration program specifically for female entrepreneurs that provides selected startups with mentoring, pitch training and workshops, along with a cash injection of $15,000.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Community building and connection is essential for early-stage founders to find the support they need to stay the difficult course, so you’ll have to be there in-person to participate. TC Early Stage provides access to essential information, resources and community connection to help you realize your entrepreneurial potential.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Looking for a supportive community of folks traveling a similar path? And if, at times, you feel like you’re going it alone, rest assured — you’ll connect with a supportive community of like-minded founders and builders. We’re talking funding tips — like creative bootstrapping, securing that elusive Series A and perfecting your pitch.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Seek out industry associations, taking advantage of community events such as conferences, workshops, training opportunities, and more. Centers of Entrepreneurship often host workshops, conferences, competitions, and online training courses. They will utilize two common tools: the investor pitch and the investor slide deck.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 31, 2020

For a few weeks, for the safety or our staff and the community, we shuttered our space and worked remotely, although we never really “closed.” Before COVID, we would have insisted, with many good reasons, that entrepreneurs participating in e3 attend workshops in person.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Some grants target underrepresented communities, others are open to all small businesses and others are tied to early technology research. Its mission is to foster vibrant small business communities through free mentoring and education workshops for small business owners. Small Business Administration. Full list of U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2022

The event, which showcased the firm’s portfolio of 21 companies, combined panel discussions, workshops, and pitching sessions, which were organized around four key themes: life tech, community economy, supply chain transformation, and breakthrough vision.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 30, 2020

It came to a successful close in November with a final pitch event at adidas Headquarters in Herzogenaurach. Of the 40 ventures that applied to the program, 11 were selected to take part and the top three were picked by an expert jury after the final presentation and pitch. The winning changemakers.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

From these proposals, 15 candidates will be selected to attend and present at Pitch Day during the Charmalot Annual User Conference, to be held Aug. It provides access to resources, educational materials, and workshops focused on EHR-related topics, helping entrepreneurs refine their product offerings and enhance their market readiness.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2019

While this event provides our changemakers with a chance to exchange insights on the social sector, debate challenges, share opportunities and identify trends across their markets and communities, it also presents an opportunity for innovators to simply connect: to build trust, share goals and form friendships. Join The Conversation.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether it’s through a recruitment workshop I’m hosting, bringing on a company as a full-time client, or just networking, I love figuring out how a company can succeed through talent. In collaboration with local incubators, we plan to host recruitment workshops tailored to their startup members.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2024

Participants will engage in a structured curriculum that combines higher education and expert-led webinars, workshops, personalized coaching, peer learning, and access to other vital resources. Pitching for Success and Growth. The curriculum for ScaleUP will focus on 15 subject areas comprising: Strategic Growth Planning.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Done right, they’re not just presentations but immersive sessions that can foster community. Another dimension to explore is hosting workshop-style webinars. It demonstrated our commitment to the community of customers. Regularly scheduled webinars convey a commitment to continuous learning.

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