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Survey: Founders without access to capital ‘find a way’ around barriers

A Women’s Venture Summit Survey found that 84% of respondents said they used personal savings to fund their companies, with 52% using personal credit cards.

Jamila Huxtable

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Starting Your Business

How to tell if your scientific breakthrough can be a viable business

Experts agreed on one key requirement for turning a scientific innovation into a product: solving a customer problem.

Jordyn Grzelewski

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Starting Your Business

These investors want to provide ‘inspiration capital’ for Southern founders

Blueprint: Tulsa gives 20 idea-stage Southern founders the environment to “fail fast,” prototype, and sharpen their customer conversion skills over a 12-week program.

Dan Latu, Jamila Huxtable

Portrait of two women standing back-to-back with their arms crossed. On the left is Schola Eburuoh, a Black woman with shoulder-length curly dark hair smiling warmly at the camera, and Sophia Casino, a woman with shoulder-length straight dark brown hair parted in the middle, wearing a bold pink blazer and white winged eyeliner, with a confident smile.

Starting Your Business

How these founders landed a no-strings $10,000 grant for their startup

Schola Eburuoh and Sophia Cabral-Casino say they’ll use the money for filing a patent and hiring part-time help at their home maintenance app.

Dan Latu

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Starting Your Business

Inside the state programs that help unemployed workers start a company

Unemployment offices in some states offer monetary and educational assistance to qualified aspiring entrepreneurs.

Dan Latu

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Starting Your Business

Disability tech founders face resource constraints. That’s changing

A guide to incubators, startup accelerators, and VC firms focused on disabled founders and assistive tech.

Jordyn Grzelewski

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Starting Your Business

How to validate a product idea before you write a single line of code

It’s critical: 43% of startups fail because they don’t achieve product-market fit.

Patrick Kulp