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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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Incubators and coworking spaces offer programing services and are an affordable and efficient alternative to full-scale offices. Cultivate an inclusive network with culturally competent support. Lean on advice from others who’ve been there before. Everyone should feel comfortable asking for help with their business.

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Edition #14: Iris Kavanagh

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I also feel a deep sense of community when I am at my coworking space, often when I am walking in and everyone says “hello” as I settle in. What is one piece of advice you give everyone that works with and/or for you? Know “why” you are opening a coworking space.

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ESHIP Communities Ecosystem Builder: Gerald Smith

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Gerald and his wife Dianna co-founded Plexpod, a coworking space where they champion entrepreneurs and the power of community to achieve success. A: Where I grew up, there was significant tension of race and culture that was sadly deeply ingrained into the community. That is why we launched Plexpod. A : Show up!

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Edition #13: Felicity Maxwell

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But also with members of my coworking space, my neighborhood, and the community of Austin. The backbone of my coworking space is relationships – between members, coworkers, and myself and our broader community. The connections between all of these people is what makes coworking so exciting.

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Edition #8: Jamie Miller

GCUC

The coffee shop, the elementary school, the coworking spaces in my neighborhood. It’s like hiring the contractor who lives on your street – there is another level of trust and engagement when you share space and cultural/social networks in real time day to day physical space.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

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Having to deal with the culture entrenched with the decision-makers and having to dissolve the old way of thinking in order to utilize best practices of the past and integrate these practices into forward-thinking methodologies. The scarcity mindset holds us all back. Carina Boston Pinales. Ellen Bateman. Metrics and practical measurements.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? There is an incredible, thriving entrepreneurship culture that breeds fascinating companies weekly. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? Our early advice to founders was to ensure runway for 18 months in order to weather the storm.

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