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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.

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The Founder’s Playbook: Winning Mindsets & Startup Strategies

American Entrepreneurship

Networking & Collaboration Building relationships, seeking mentorship, and leveraging partnerships for growth. Empowers innovation Essential for launching and scaling startups. Develop a Strong Network & Leverage Mentorship Surround yourself with like-minded individuals who challenge and support you.

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How Capsule is supporting young women to build thriving businesses

Impact Hub

How Capsule is supporting young women to build thriving businesses Despite Romania’s growing startup ecosystem, women founders remain disproportionately low. Why women entrepreneurs need more support Despite Romanias growing startup ecosystem, theres a glaring gender gap in entrepreneurship. But one programme isnt enough.

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Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

TechCrunch

We partnered with various founder organizations — who in turn nominated promising early-stage startup founders — and collectively provide educational resources and mentorship to help these young founders develop and succeed over the course of the year.

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Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad

TechCrunch

Crimson Education, a platform to help students get into top universities, nabs $5M at a $245M valuation. An Indian startup that is bridging this gap on Thursday said it has raised $6.5 One of the earliest iterations of Leverage Edu offered mentorship to students and rewarded counselors with points. and Australia, he said.

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

TechCrunch

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. But what about those minority founders who don’t have family, friends or connections to lean on for the first $250,000? hit nearly $1.8