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Why Gen Z Should Be Your Small Business’s Next Big Focus

The Startup Magazine

Now, a lot of businesses only see Gen Z as teenagers, but this generation started in 1997, so essentially, the older ones are in their late 20s, slowly creeping to their 30s. Plus, they’re incredibly socially conscious, caring deeply about issues like sustainability, diversity, and social justice.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

As a training program designer and facilitator, I would create highly engaging and very saleable programs for the three companies I worked for over those years. As a training program designer and facilitator, I would create highly engaging and very saleable programs for the three companies I worked for over those years.

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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. It’s designed to provide capacity to nonprofits in the areas that they’re weakest. 3 specific issues: 1. Did this again in 08-09.

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Monday night: HBS Angels of NY Investor Meeting and Company Presentations

David Teten

" Since 1997, Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) has armed senior executives with cutting edge talent improvement research and benchmarking. StyleMusée is a social shopping platform that connects style-conscious consumers with designers that match their personal style. Click here to buy tickets. StyleMusée.

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. Why are they called the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards? The awards emcees and entertainment guests have also been one of my favorite parts of the ceremony?—?particularly

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

We should have a really nice crowd of entrepreneurs, designers, and funders there and expect a great discussion. Hilton E – Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, discusses the impact of social media and technological innovation on culture, society and economic justice. It means now is the best… ([link].

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