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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. Mayors don’t build startup cities.

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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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Don and his team find in many rural communities, “well-educated young people […] are seeking careers in a wider range of fields,” and if the community fails to create diverse job opportunities associated with career paths, “chances are good that most of the community’s children and grandchildren will leave the community and not return.”.

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Ben Franklin’s Spring 2024 TechCelerator Winners Announced!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Second place of $4,500 went to Workforce Consolidation Solutions , founded by Ronnie Tillman-Hill and Alex Steele (Dauphin County): Providing eco-friendly employee transportation solutions, WCS optimizes routes and reduces commute times, enhancing employee experience and workforce management.

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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. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi. Go Together, Inc. : Founded by Kimberly Moore.

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Navigating Singapore’s Startup Ecosystem: Top 5 Funding Initiatives Unveiled

AsiaTechDaily

The initiative aims to provide Singapore-based startups access to diverse funding sources and mentorship programs, nurturing innovative concepts into prosperous companies. Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs.

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Korea’s top accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge 2023 accepting applications from global startups  

AsiaTechDaily

South Korea also has a relatively open and business-friendly environment, with a highly educated and skilled workforce. Fourthly, startups will be provided with office space in Pangyo Techno Valley, easily accessible by public transportation. International startups participating in KSGC 2023 can expect several benefits.

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Ben Franklin’s Spring 2024 TechCelerator Winners Announced!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Second place of $4,500 went to Workforce Consolidation Solutions , founded by Ronnie Tillman-Hill and Alex Steele (Dauphin County): Providing eco-friendly employee transportation solutions, WCS optimizes routes and reduces commute times, enhancing employee experience and workforce management.