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EO Members Reflect on Coaching GSEA Global Finalists for ‘Start It Up’ Season 3

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Nominees compete against their peers from around the world in a series of local, national, and regional competitions in hopes to qualify for the GSEA Global Finals. Nominees compete against their peers from around the world in a series of local, national, and regional competitions in hopes to qualify for the GSEA Global Finals.

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Ashna Mahepal to Young Entrepreneurs: Identify Your Source of Empowerment

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. She created the organization out of her passion for social entrepreneurial impact. Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N.

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Why Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help

StartupNation

In addition to getting the help you need and gaining perspective from your peers, there’s an added, less obvious benefit to asking for help. Here is my list of what worked for me, but this isn’t as a definitive list. Monkey and Me: A Real Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs” by Mike Smerklo. Copyright 2020 Lioncrest Publishing.

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Larissa de Moura: Working Towards a World Without Borders

Impact Hub

How can we make the field of entrepreneurship more inclusive to groups that are systematically deprived of representation? Larissa de Moura, a Brazilian social innovator based in Spain, has experienced first-hand the challenges of being a young, migrant entrepreneur and developing her startup on her own, in an unknown country.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. 9:00 – Interviewing multiple times at the same company. Google Play.

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

Vidit Aatrey is cofounder and CEO of Meesho. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com. Adora Cheung is a Partner at YC. Before working at YC she cofounded Homejoy. 00:00 – Intro.

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25 Sources For Funding Minority Entrepreneurs

Smart Hustle Magazine

You do NOT have to have funding to start a business but you can definitely bootstrap it. However, do note that even BEYOND FUNDING – what’s MOST important is that you build a business that has the right team, solves the right problem, for the right customer base. If you have a suggestion to add to the list, just let me know.