Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

Pictured left to right: Barry Snyder, Erin Kerner, Bob Dornich (TechCelerator Coach), Michael Irvin “We are thrilled to witness the success of these promising startups and their potential to drive economic growth in the Erie region,” remarked Brian Slawin, Portfolio Manager for Ben Franklin CNP. Premier Manufacturing – d.b.a

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Good entrepreneurs use the hidden opportunity of recession times to supplement their income or launch a new venture for a variety of reasons. By sheer necessity, recessions force entrepreneurs to evaluate what they do well and how they can monetize their skills. This void presents opportunities for individuals and startups to step in.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

James Burnes: Ministry of Awesome is a startup ecosystem organisation that is on a mission to drive New Zealand’s economic growth through founder-led innovation. So we have entrepreneurs and residents working in Wellington, in Christchurch, and in Auckland. And today we are a national organisation.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Identify Potential Allies.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

In her N Y Times essay , French Gates presents her underlying thesis for advancing women’s causes in such a direct and profound way. She advances that research and analysis have shown that “investing in women and girls benefits everyone”.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 11, 2022

During the meet up, which included representation from the majority of divisions within the SEC, Gouhin was able to talk about the power of angel investors and the role they play in economic growth, job creation, entrepreneurship and the connection between angel investment and venture capital dollars.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 25, 2021

The Global Business Angels Network (GBAN) Annual Meeting will take place as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Congress – this is anticipated as the first post-COVID-19 live global gatherings of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers and other startup champions from around the world.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

(March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Seedstars group is present in 90+ countries with activities that include the largest entrepreneurship competition in emerging markets. -->. Women entrepreneurs and fundraising. Increasing opportunities for women entrepreneurs sets off a domino effect that local and global markets can benefit from.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

With this modernization increasingly becoming a necessity, both networking giant Cisco and market intelligence firm IDC recommend eight steps entrepreneurs can take now. How much small business digital transformation could boost economic growth. Widening the digital divide.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The Ben Franklin Technology Partners (Ben Franklin) Pennsylvania statewide network will present before the Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee regarding the proposed 2019-2020 Pennsylvania budget at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, March 6, live-streamed here: [link]. million per year.

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Impact Hub

JULY 10, 2019

Impact Hub Executive Director, Gabriela Gandel will be featured as a panelist to share Impact Hub’s commitment to social and economic growth. Dedicated stands to present inspiring projects. About Impact Hub: Impact Hub is a global network focused on building communities for impact at scale.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 18, 2021

ERIE, PA – On Thursday, January 14, 2021,with more than 160 viewers in the zoom audience, seven companies made their final pitch presentations to four independent judges; a panel which also included a past BIG IDEA winner, Dr. Wei-Shin Lai with Acoustic Sheep.

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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.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 19, 2024

(June 19, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and AfroTech have partnered to host AfroTech Executive 2024 in Newark during this year’s North to Shore Festival. Award-winning host, social justice advocate, lawyer, commentator, and entrepreneur Angela Rye will serve at the keynote speaker. Harmon, Sr.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

“We are convinced that the contribution of these type of companies, especially the scale-ups, is super significant to the prosperity and to the economic growth of the country. “The entrepreneurs are always looked at as super fancy and smart people but at the end of the day we are the same. .

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

As venture capitalist and economic historian Bill Janeway remarked : “… the federal government funded construction of a platform on which entrepreneurs and venture capitalists could dance.” Innovation and entrepreneurship policy experts view the expansion of this program as a key lever for improving economic growth.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 26, 2021

The program successfully contributed to providing entrepreneurship opportunities to more than 200 vulnerable community members and entrepreneurs with social impact. Following this, co-created policy initiatives, as well as a road map for policy development, will be proposed and presented. . About Impact Hub.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Entrepreneurs are reinventing the future. Entrepreneurs are not only reinventing the future through innovative solutions, but they are also positively impacting the present by playing a role in creating decent work opportunities and economic growth. LIVE with Impact Hub events are free for all our members.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 22, 2022

Female leadership and entrepreneurial potential remain – no doubts – an untapped source of economic growth that should be further encouraged and supported. Fostering Innovation to Support Female Entrepreneurs. Which leads us to Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA).

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Impact Hub

MARCH 6, 2019

The program is also open to women who want to get to know inspirational entrepreneurs with whom they can network in order to improve their entrepreneurial skills and share challenges and lessons. There’s no doubt that GMW has a real impact, specifically on a particularly overlooked yet resilient group: women entrepreneurs.”.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Impact Hub Zagreb: Microentrepreneur support for Fierce Women Society The launch of the Fierce Women Society is a collaborative initiative by K-zone and Impact Hub Zagreb, aimed at providing comprehensive support for micro-entrepreneurs of all genders.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 14, 2022

At Impact Hub, we believe in the power of circularity to create a more sustainable present and future. That’s why we are currently on a mission to mainstream circular principles across our global network.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 14, 2020

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer One of the fundamentals pillars of the Angel Capital Association is protecting and advocating for the rights of angel investors and the entrepreneurs they support. If these startups don’t comply, they face substantial fines and potential jail time.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Having worked in entrepreneurial ecosystem building ourselves, we were not surprised that the main challenges in our field arise around a typical old-school mindset and a severe lack of equal opportunities for entrepreneurs of ALL ethnicities, backgrounds and gender. Clark Rinehart. We’re better together. Melanie Lenci. Eric Parker.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Snippets of advice, tactics, and tools I used to raise an oversubscribed round during an economic downturn Image: Author I’m writing this blog post on the heels of closing our oversubscribed round during what’s been described as the worst time in history to raise capital. Hit “Follow” or “Notify” here to track our journey.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

These were roundtable events, long tables full of talented innovators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and others. No cameras were present, as is typically the case in our hearings. The upsides are going to be a result of innovators and entrepreneurs and investors. So there’s a lot of candid conversation on dedicated topics.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

At Impact Hub Lisbon they’ve grown from an idea to a company full of people that are on a mission to make a change, and present sustainability as standard. To learn more about the most promising social entrepreneurs around the world, sign up to Impact Hub’s monthly newsletter. Impact Hub Lisbon. Written by: Thea Smith.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 1, 2021

Jordan, 1 June, 2021 – The Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) and its mandated Advisory Committee and Sub-Committees, supported by the United Nations Development Programme Jordan (UNDP Jordan) and Impact Hub gathered to advance policy development work in support of social entrepreneurs in Jordan. About Impact Hub.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 16, 2022

Despite the fact it does not sufficiently address certain subjects that are key to a thriving social economy sector, such as external action and public procurement, the Action Plan and the efforts surrounding its conception are a very important and positive milestone for social economy organisations and social entrepreneurs based in Europe.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 11, 2024

Big power plants and long power lines are burdensome to build, but technologies like solar, batteries, and advanced nuclear reactors present new possibilities. Moreover, the lack of real visibility into live power flow presents looming issues, specifically at the distribution level. Anything that can be electrified will be electrified.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 12, 2021

Among these was the emergence of a collective desire to create better conditions and targeted support for social entrepreneurs across the globe. . It is about changing the way we work in supporting impact entrepreneurs! Today the Alliance includes 85 organizations and represents 90,000 social entrepreneurs and reaches 1.9

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

“It would present a huge opportunity for a variety of climate tech sectors, ranging from clean electricity to carbon management to vehicle electrification.” This increased competition is good for hardware vendors and ultimately could create new businesses for entrepreneurs who want to become ISPs of their own.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

All the dominant economic “-isms” assume never ending growth. Therefore, if debt is expanding faster than economic growth, you just need to apply an infinite growth and time scale, and the government will default 100% of the time. For illustration purposes, I’m going to simplify the bond maths.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And so I think this is an opportunity for the defenders to not only keep up, but also build better systems for the present-day threat landscape, also. I mean, so, you know, the overall answer is productivity growth in the economy, you know, is a great starting point. Economic growth is a great starting point. Marc: Yeah.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We believe growth is progress – leading to vitality, expansion of life, increasing knowledge, higher well being. We agree with Paul Collier when he says, “Economic growth is not a cure-all, but lack of growth is a kill-all.” We believe everything good is downstream of growth. The Enemy We have enemies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

Since late last year, the market has been waiting for the signal that the Fed is more concerned about economic growth than inflation. This essay shall argue that on July 27, the Fed telegraphed that, should growth disappoint, it will shift its policies towards supporting growth rather than fighting inflation.

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