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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. But we also organize ourselves around practice areas and have done for the past 7 years and these include: SaaS, Cyber Security, FinTech, Computer Vision, Sustainability, Healthcare, Marketplace businesses, Video Games?—?each

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Startup Fundraising that Meets Investor Expectations

American Entrepreneurship

That includes angel investors, venture capitalists, and institutional funders associated with various stages of a startup’s growth. They also look for certain traits in the founder such as vision, passion, and leadership to build the right team. For a solo entrepreneur, they look for experience and significant accomplishments.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

I believe it is that this vision is too visionary for the majority of our existing leadership ecosystem. Today, I have asked some key funders to consider requiring ecosystem asks vs asks from individual organizations. Formal development opportunities around facilitation, communities of practice, and leadership are of interest.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. Leadership role – somebody has to take up the challenge to lead the efforts. The first 6 months: Challenges and Wins.

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

Being an effective founder of a high-growth company requires a bundle of technical, analytical, leadership and communication skills that don’t often come packaged in a single individual. Step 1: Find the best founders An uncomfortable truth about this work is that not all founders are created equal.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. I’d like to understand how to build effective multi-year plans that inspire and engage both funders of my own organization (and/or myself!) Lauren Mehler Pradhan. Hard skills. Dustin Shay.

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. Resourcing the Field: Imagine the collective of entrepreneurship ecosystem builders with diverse and sustainable resource streams to support and properly compensate those doing this work.