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Female Founder Interview: Latina Leader Elizabeth Colón

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , we sat down with award-winning entrepreneur Elizabeth Colón. Growing up in a home with two deaf sisters and parents who spoke very little English, Elizabeth saw the many ways that language can be a barrier for individuals who do not have the means to communicate on their own.

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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. Most government agencies and many large corporations have procurement programs that allot a percentage of their contracts to women-owned small businesses.

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4 Reasons A Diverse Sales Team Will Boost Revenue

YoungUpstarts

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: In February, 1869, a letter to the editor of the New York Times questioned why female government employees were not paid the same as male counterparts.

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FinTech Accelerating Digital Transformation of Banking in Africa

The Startup Magazine

Finnovation Africa: Ethiopia 2017 is delighted to welcome a stellar list of keynote speakers, including Chris Principe , CEO of Chain2Trade, Inc. Mr. Diop continued by saying, “As the formal economy grows we see individuals, communities, and nations prosper and make progress on strategic growth and development priorities.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Milis Bio

Austin Startup

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. From September 2017 to September 2018, Milis Bio participated in the University College Cork IGNITE Incubator program, and they won Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of the Year for 2018. What’s your actual super power?

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I am a proud Mexican-American “Tejano” who grew up in South Texas.

Austin Startup

I started Good Dog Labs in early 2014 and a year later I officially became a co-founder with the on-boarding of my brother Dino in 2015. In 2017, both my brother Dino and I purchased homes in the Austin area. My brother and I built something we are proud of in the northeast, but the call of Texas is hard to dismiss.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM