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

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While starting a business is a common new year’s resolution, soon-to-be entrepreneurs make the leap for a variety of reasons. To effectively support any entrepreneur, you must develop an infrastructure of resources in your community. Early-stage entrepreneurs, like all entrepreneurs, have their own set of unique needs.

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Edition #14: Iris Kavanagh

GCUC

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. Just go for it.

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ESHIP Communities Ecosystem Builder: Gerald Smith

Forward Cities

Meet Kansas City entrepreneur and ecosystem builder Gerald Smith. Gerald and his wife Dianna co-founded Plexpod, a coworking space where they champion entrepreneurs and the power of community to achieve success. This interview is part of the “Ecosystem Builders” series. That is why we launched Plexpod.

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

TechCrunch

Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now?

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Edition #13: Felicity Maxwell

GCUC

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

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Having worked in entrepreneurial ecosystem building ourselves, we were not surprised that the main challenges in our field arise around a typical old-school mindset and a severe lack of equal opportunities for entrepreneurs of ALL ethnicities, backgrounds and gender. The scarcity mindset holds us all back. Carina Boston Pinales.