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Funding for Women-Owned Businesses

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Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. What’s more, startups founded by women are 20 percent more likely to be revenue-generating and bring 35 percent higher returns to investors than all startups combined.

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A Brief History of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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The FTC and Chamber of Commerce were the greatest supporters of the Revenue Act of 1938. They began this practice fairly recently, in 1997. The Chamber of Commerce continued to support the Jobs, Growth, and Opportunity Agenda through 2020. Between 2019 and 2020, the US Chamber of Commerce began an 18-month restoration project.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

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Warren Buffet, 1997. After all, in the year 2020, investors that had access to VC-backed IPOs, earned $206 million in average one-day gains for each of 165 separate offerings, for a total of $34B in one-day wealth transfers (including over-allotments). Last year, 2020, the AVERAGE IPO was underpriced by 47.9%!

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