Ecosystem Builder Hub

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Kedma Ough and Rashedia Mayhane spoke at the Survive and Thrive Summit about money tips and tools for your small business. H osted and produced by Ramon Ray of Smart Hustle Media, the first two Summits were held in April and August 2020. The next one will be in this spring of 2021. It's free, so sign up for updates and registration information. Kedma is a small business superhero, an advocate to those navigating entrepreneurship and trying to be successful.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The Economist ran a story about the future of work this week. Working remotely, we have reduced meeting length by about 15% and increased our total time at work by 2 hours per day. We might declare we have found an extra 10 hours in the workweek from nothing. This productivity boost might seem universally positive, but there’s a catch. One of the critical topics in many boardrooms today is managing employee burnout.

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Venture Well

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Mentorship and outreach complement each other as important strategies for broadening participation for underrepresented student innovators who are considering I&E programs. The post advancing equity in I&E programs through authentic outreach and mentorship appeared first on VentureWell.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic created a new fundraising environment with its own unique challenges. Among them, VCs and startups are forced to interact remotely and make deals without ever shaking hands. This matters because it brings new issues to light that simply were not as relevant to investors before. Many of these new red flags that occur during virtual pitching are easy to fix.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Business owners and hiring managers, take note: Generation Z is entering the workforce and you don’t want to confuse them with millennials. Zippia’s 2020 Job Seeker Report reveals that the youngest generation of workers—people under 25—have distinct needs and desires when it comes to the workplace. We’ve gathered key takeaways from Zippia’s survey of 1,000 American job seekers.

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Venture Well

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Through intensive customer discovery, E-Team grantee, Greta Meyer and her team is designing more durable, sustainable women's health products. . The post creating sustainable and durable women’s health products: q&a with Greta Meyer from E-Team, Sequel appeared first on VentureWell.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

My favorite time of year in New England is early Fall. The heat and humidity of summer are gone, and the air is crisp and clear. Separating the cities of Boston and Cambridge, the Charles River is alive with sailors from several local universities and the Community Boating center. People jogging, biking, walking and enjoying the best of what Boston has to offer fill the sidewalks along the river.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Regular readers will know that I am a huge fan and funder of teaching kids to code. I believe helping young people learn to think logically via coding exercises is helpful to their development in so many ways. So when I came across the NextMaker project on Kickstarter , I backed it instantly. NextMaker is a monthly box that comes with a project that your kids can do combining coding with making things.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Erik Day from Dell spoke about small business technology at the Survive and Thrive Summit , hosted and produced by Ramon Ray of Smart Hustle Media. The first two Summits were held virtually in April and August 2020. The next one will be in the spring of 2021. Stay tuned! Erik has been at Dell for 21 years, so he knows that technology plays a very important role in everything that’s happening in today’s world, including the pandemic.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A startup is a new buzzword in the corporate world. Almost every entrepreneur who starts a new business calls his/her venture a startup. But not every business is a startup. Many entrepreneurs realize later that their business was nothing but a small business from the very start. This creates a confusion of what exactly is a startup and how is it different from a small business.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Four New Zealand business owners share how they’ve looked after their own wellbeing during the tougher moments of COVID-19, and how they’re preparing to recover and thrive. If you asked someone six months ago about the key skill required to be a successful small business owner, they might have said something like creativity, perseverance or resourcefulness.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This post is part of a series featuring highlights from the Unsung Heroes of Ecosystem Building campaign which shone a spotlight on 40+ entrepreneurial ecosystem builders from around the U.S. and abroad between February and September 2020. “Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In 2008, Tyler Jorgenson was not in any position to give out strategies for business growth, as he is now. In fact, he was quite literally in the opposite situation. As the world was dragged down by a crash in the real estate and financial sectors, Tyler owned a real estate company and a mortgage company. He also owned 17 properties in California. The day the market plummeted, he was going to the doctor with his wife to find out the gender of their fourth kid.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Imagining someone without a name, personality, or distinct behaviour is hard. It’s human nature to associate certain identification attributes to a person or a thing and call them its identity. Hence, every human creation has its own identity, unique or not. It’s the similar case with corporations as well. Corporations are given names, personalities, and are even humanized to help the target audience identify it, relate to it, and differentiate it in the market.

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The Startup Blog Market Brief

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Education companies now need to include caregivers in their technical support, professional development, and implementation processes. The post Professional Development for Parents and Other Caregivers During COVID-19 appeared first on Market Brief.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

My immediate family members were entrepreneurs from as far back as I can trace. Dad was a jeweler, then a furniture store owner. Mom wrote books and articles from her college days until she could no longer see the keyboard. One grandfather owned and maintained his apartment houses. The other was a grocer, then a jeweler. My entrepreneurial start.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The year 2020 has shaken the entire world, including the small business world. Some businesses have closed doors forever, while many others have pivoted and adopted resilience. Not being alone as an entrepreneur has been one way to rise up and power punch any challenge. Nothing beats a phone call or a sitdown with like-minded entrepreneurs. More than ever, we need a strong network.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The Gotham Gal and I spent a good part of saturday walking around NYC. At one point, we walked through the massive and amazing Chelsea Piers complex and saw this plaque: Think about that. In one four year period, the New York Public Library, Grand Central, the subway, the Queensboro and Manhattan bridges, the fire hydrant system, electrical street lights, firehouses, schoolbuildings, and 51 piers, including the Chelsea Piers, were built.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

By Scott Meacham. We can get the national perspective of the pandemic’s current and after-effect on the banking and finance industries from the Wall Street Journal, but to get an Oklahoma banker’s perspective on the industry post-pandemic, I reached out to Darryl Schmidt, CEO of BancFirst. BancFirst is the largest state-chartered bank in Oklahoma with more than 100 service locations in 60 Oklahoma communities.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager ACA emails have a new look! The Angel Capital Association’s top priority is to service our members by providing resources to help with making smart investments and improving returns. Whether it is an upcoming event or a new piece of legislation, ACA wants to help our members easily identify the benefits that are most applicable to each individual.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Two words. Sometimes two simple words are the only barrier between you and your dreams. "I quit" is a phrase or action that some people daydream about and others courageously do to end their job and begin afresh. The I Quit show by Shopify embodies just that: aspiring entrepreneurs leaving their jobs to grow a business. Following six businesses for a year, we watch their journey of growth and trials as well as the advice given to them by three successful mentors.

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GCUC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This week’s virtual gathering was all about rituals and how a simple change can make a huge impact. We sat down with Casper ter. The post Casper ter Kuile Roundtable Sound Bites appeared first on GCUC Community.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The looming impact of new nutrition standards, combined with regulatory pressure and public sentiment, has led to something of a panic in the industry, and a flurry of innovation. The new race—in which DouxMatok is only one of several competitors—is not to develop a substitute for sugar but to design a better sugar altogether. Read more here. The post [DouxMatok in The new Yorker] The Race to Redesign Sugar appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

I am in the middle of a week of back to back to back to back all day meetings. Which means I am not responsive on email, which means I am not getting anything done, which means I can’t be easily reached. Which means I am stressed. In times like this, I like to remind myself of my priorities. What matters most? For me, I like this line of f words which does not include the one I want to use when I feel like this ??.

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