You may love supporting your local bookstore — or better yet, your local library — but nothing beats the convenience of Amazon. Now there’s Bookshop.org, a startup that’s aiming to support brick-and-mortar indie bookshops by splitting the proceeds from online sales with participating stores. The site’s still in beta, but it features a counter tracking the amount it’s raised so far for local booksellers. That’s the sort of paper-chase we can get behind.

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Maybe Gretel should’ve just left Hansel behind. The women-led GingerBread Capital fund helps female-founded startups run, run, run as fast as they can through the execution and growth stages. Partners Linnea Roberts and Ita Ekpoudom not only fill a gap often overlooked by larger financial institutions, but also provide mentorship, education and networking — cultivating an entire ecosystem for women entrepreneurs. The pair spoke with “Off the Sidelines,” the investor education podcast produced by us at Technical.ly in partnership with Project Entrepreneur, a program by UBS.

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