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Measuring Data and Creating Impactful Economic Reports

Source Link

Data captured from the small businesses supported by SourceLink® affiliate organizations provides valuable information for our network to report to their community stakeholders. Under the American Rescue Plan , the EDA received $3 billion in supplemental funding to assist communities nationwide in their efforts to build back better.

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Taking A Long Term View Of Web3

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

On the one hand, tokens enable developers and users to contribute to open-source protocols and participate in the economic upside of doing so, leading to strong developer communities. That’s been a positive relative to how software has been developed, monetized, and governed in the past. These protocols have survived recent market volatility.

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Funds offering ‘friends and family’ checks could bring the change underrepresented founders need

TechCrunch

A new white paper by the venture fund Fifth Star put into context how incongruous such statements are: The average friends and family round is $23,000. Black family wealth is $3,630 compared to $79,000 for white families; the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends. The median liquid U.S.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Gust

Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Create referral marketing opportunities within your business community that maximize the potential for customer referrals. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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EO Members Share Takeaways from 2023 WEF in Davos

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Pajani Singah’s company, Amazonia Impact Ventures , was named Top Innovation Winner of the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge for protecting the Amazon rainforest and improving the lives of its people through an innovative finance company that works directly with indigenous communities in the rainforests.

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At Last – An Asset Class Achieving High Ownership at Low Cost

Angel Capital Association

This unprecedented growth provides a wealth of new opportunity for the investment community. With their unique model, studios create the opportunity to achieve high ownership at a low cost ( see Exhibit A in the white paper ), thus mitigating the risk for loss and creating a great opportunity for gains.

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

TechCrunch

You can impress accelerators by creating a pitch deck and a company video less than two minutes long that shows your founder and the product, and engaging with the fintech community to spread the news. The other alternative to accelerators is government funds, but they have had little success investing in startups for myriad reasons.