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How Understanding Multigenerational Workforces Can Make You a Better Leader

StartupNation

To help baby boomers succeed, employers should create specific goals and deadlines, offer mentorships roles and take a coaching-style feedback approach. Related: How a Professional Employer Organization Can Help Your Startup. Fun fact: Gen Xers make up the highest percentage of startup founders at 55%. Generation Y.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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What you want, however, is to increase the chance that such a founder winds up in your locale—that not only is it routine to find such a person, but there’s also a path for well meaning, aspirational folks just starting out their career to grow into that founder through learning, experience and mentorship. You need both.

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What Drives The University Of Michigan’s Entrepreneurial Success

HPA

When CFE was founded by famed NASA administrator and former U-M professor Thomas Zurbuchan in 2008, its aim was to evangelize entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor and to help instill the entrepreneurial mindset into the regional culture. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve. Just as the $2.4B Originally featured in Forbes.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022: The world’s most tech-savvy country South Korea invites startups to grow their businesses

AsiaTechDaily

COMEUP is a global flagship startup event attended by startup founders, investors, VCs, entrepreneurs, and media. The annual event has numerous programs such as lectures, panel discussions, IR, networking, exhibitions, startup ecosystem tours, and joint private-public events. Who can apply for KSGC 2022?

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

TechCrunch

But what about those minority founders who don’t have family, friends or connections to lean on for the first $250,000? Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Realize you are up against an outdated system. Tap into foreign markets.

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Starting a Business! From Idea to Launch

American Entrepreneurship

Mentorship: Having access to someone with much greater experience is of tremendous value to a first-time entrepreneur. Every startup founder should know how the quality, delivery and price of their products/services stand up against the competition when deciding to start up a business.