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How to Get Started Mapping Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem [Updated]

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Want to map your entrepreneurship ecosystem but don’t know how to get started? Note: I originally published this article in 2019 to share my lessons-learned from mapping a local ecosystem. I’ve added some of those insights here while I work on a more comprehensive resource guide to mapping entrepreneurship ecosystems.

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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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I consulted and trained dozens of local economic developers on entrepreneurship ecosystem building efforts, developing a unique understanding of the stereotypes and challenges associated with rural economic development and entrepreneurship ecosystem building. Making the Case for Entrepreneurship!

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Building Rural Communities Through Entrepreneurship

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On Thursday, April 21, SourceLink hosted Building Rural Communities Through Entrepreneurship , a webinar on strategies for growing rural communities through entrepreneurship-led economic development. Don Macke – Senior Vice President, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Nicole LaChapelle – Mayor, Easthampton, MA. Nathan Ohle.

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GEN New Zealand releases manifesto to encourage greater entrepreneurship

NZ Entrepreneur

Watch the video interview now A network of more than 140 entrepreneurial businesses and organisations warns New Zealand is in danger of being left behind due to a lack of resources and insufficient policies to progress entrepreneurship. They collaborated to produce the manifesto, reflecting the views of network members.

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Is American Entrepreneurship In Crisis?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups , shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. . In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. Today’s entrepreneurial climate is just the opposite.

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How collective data and storytelling can lead to lasting impact for underserved entrepreneurs

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The concept of building networks of support, or what has sometimes been referred to as, forging “entrepreneurial ecosystems”, has been a key focus for many advancing the idea that innovation and entrepreneurship will be the future of not just our recovery- but the necessary inclusive pathway for economic advancement and wealth building for all.

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Social Enterprise Incubator’s 5th Cohort focuses on Climate and Health Equity

American Entrepreneurship

RevHub joined several partners to launch the NorthSTAR OC Collaborative to support the Orange County entrepreneurial ecosystem. Most noteworthy was the selection of CABI as one of the forty national prize winners of the Growth Accelerator Fund Competition by the US Small Business Administration.

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