Entrepreneurship

[Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program 2022 Deadline: Rolling basis Applications are open for the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program 2022. Miller Center is seeking applications for its accelerator programs or entrepreneurs working on women’s economic empowerment and/or climate resilience because of your outsized impact on eliminating poverty. If you lead a …

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[Reckoning looms for past VC excesses as market forces valuation reset PitchBook tracks and writes about all sorts of data points in the venture industry, from capital collected by companies to the fundraising activity of VC funds. But perhaps no data set generates as much interest from our readers as startup valuations across the venture …

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[Sisters Launch Puja Flower Subscription Startup, Earn Rs 8 Crore/Year It was just a simple complaint by her mother — about the dearth of puja flowers in their area — that first made Yeshoda Karuturi, a resident of Bengaluru, thinks about starting Hoovu (‘flowers’ in Kannada) and flower subscription. With her sister Rhea, the 27-year-old …

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[ Zim blockchain startups! This challenge could fast track you to the Seedstars International Ventures Fund FT x Cardano Blockchain Challenge in association with Project Catalyst, Seedstars, and FT Talent by Financial Times has a mission to source ventures interested in leveraging the Cardano Blockchain platform & community and engage with ventures interested in building …

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[Q1 European VC valuation trends in six charts Europe’s venture capital market remained robust in Q1, even as the macroeconomic backdrop threatened to cool investor appetite. Valuations across the board continued to climb from records set in 2021, but ongoing uncertainty, particularly in the public markets, may cause their growth to slow. Here’s a closer …

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[Small business grant allows Burnsville beauty supply store to stabilize, grow Henrietta Smaller thought the time was right last year to open a storefront for her online hair and beauty supply business for people of color. She knew those products were in short supply throughout the Twin Cities because of some stores not making it …

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