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Funding for Women-Owned Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Can

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. Female entrepreneurs are also successfully tapping into alternative funding options—such as accelerators, competitions, crowdfunding , grants, and specialized lending programs.

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Meet our Startup Chica Committee Members

Austin Startup

Startup Chica Spotlight: Meet our 2019 Committee Members Meet the Austin professionals and community leaders who have embraced the Latinitas mission and helped make Startup Chica 2019 a reality. Currently, Nereyda is a Global Program Manager at Facebook where she leads global outsourcing initiatives for its community operations team.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Michael leads the Social Innovation team, which works with programs and grants. • Goal: tap into power of developers to solve community problems.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Will Yang, Instrumentl ! #4-

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Welcoming Bobby Schnabel Back to CU Boulder

Feld Thoughts

While you may not know Bobby, this is a huge add for CU Boulder and the Boulder Startup Community. Bobby is returning to CU Boulder to strengthen the partnership between the incredible tech business and startup community we have in the Boulder area and in Colorado, and the tech-programs at CU Boulder. Welcome back, Bobby!

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Don’t Underestimate the Undergraduates

Steve Blank

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. And Zignal Labs. Jim co-taught classes with me at U.C.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. (And Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.