Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 26, 2022

The winner will be announced at a pitch event to be held on June 9, 2022 at the North Central PA LaunchBox powered by Penn State DuBois. ARC’s mission is to innovate, partner, and invest to build community capacity and strengthen economic growth in Appalachia. BIG IDEAS GROW IN WILD PLACES! . appeared first on BFTP/CNP.

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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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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.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2024

The program is meticulously crafted to address the specific needs of underserved businesses, fostering an environment where they can thrive and grow and in return increase their market share position while accelerating their potential to become a high-growth, scalable MBE/SEDI entrepreneur. Pitching for Success and Growth.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Our journey began with a single email to Ben Franklin in October 2021, leading to subsequent pitches and our participation in the Penn State TechCelerator program. Showcase how your startup can drive economic growth, innovate technologically, and create high-quality jobs.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Spotlight Media Spotlight Media delivers economic growth to people and businesses by harnessing the power of the internet and marrying that with the success of video production (ie. Jaia Robotics Inc. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 1, 2022

By the end of 2020, MiFriendly Cities had inves ted €80 ,000 in migrant social entrepreneurs, 28 projects were pitched for seed funding and 16 social enterprises were registered as businesses. Highlights from the wrap up .

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Impact Hub

MAY 13, 2021

The coaching and mentoring sessions helped them elevate their pitch deck and supported their strategy development. They decided to join the New Economy Booster program to learn to scale this specific aspect of their business. The New Economy Booster program really impacted our business and strategic thinking.”, Samuel Danso says. .

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Draper’s firm, Draper & Johnson Investment Company, was co-founded with Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, who went on to found many high-tech companies over an illustrious career. Innovation and entrepreneurship policy experts view the expansion of this program as a key lever for improving economic growth.

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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.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 19, 2022

In addition, the businesses were given access to investors from across the African continent and taught to pitch their ideas in order to secure funding. It saw significant success, with some businesses securing partnerships with international organisations and governments, and others in due diligence processes with investors.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The driving force of economic growth for the US is gains in productivity driven by calculated risk-takers, passionate entrepreneurs and disruptive innovation. In another vein, I wish that the importance of entrepreneurship was more respected and valued at all levels of society – including by our policy makers and larger corporations.

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

We believe that transforming the supply chain in emerging markets can fuel their economic growth, so we are building a complete suite of supply chain services for their businesses. Our pitch, our model was based on China-to-Latin America. Our pitch [to each industry] needed to be aligned with that industry, specifically.

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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. Let’s start with the tools we used at Supademo: Canva and Journey.io

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. 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. The Democrats get Charles Koch to fix climate change, and then Charles gets all the money for the contracts.

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