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JumpStart America accelerates outcome-driven regional entrepreneurial initiatives focused on high-impact startup and existing firms to create hundreds of thousands of new U.S. jobs.

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JumpStart America is a community-focused effort leveraging regional public, private, philanthropic and institutional partnerships to spur the creation of new jobs by developing, identifying and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs.


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Startup America

Happy Birthday, Startup America

With a couple of fledgling companies standing with him, Steve Case ran the bell at the New York Stock Exchange ...

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In Their Own Words

“...JumpStart’s approach is based on one simple truth: to succeed in creating an environment for innovation, we must deliberately focus on engaging the community in determining the best way forward.”

– Paula Ellis, Knight Foundation
vice president for strategic initiatives.

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