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SDG1
NO POVERTY
1.4  Community anti-poverty programmes
1.4.1  Local start-up assistance

Provide assistance in the local community supporting the start-up of financially and socially sustainable businesses through relevant education or resources (e.g. mentorship programmes, training workshops, access to university facilities).

  • free
  • paid
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Description
Evidence
1.
Young entrepreneurs can get help from UNIMAS with their local start-ups. This is done for free through UNIMAS Entrepreneurship Centre (UEC). 
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Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups. Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable. On average, half of Startup Weekend’s attendees have technical or design backgrounds, the other half have business backgrounds. Startup Weekend is 54-hour workshop where developers, designers, markerters, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch your startup