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

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Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC), which can provide assistance with business planning, access to financing, counseling services and classes. University entrepreneurship and innovation centers that partner with the community to provide tools, facilities and education to local business owners.

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Top Small Business Resources for Starting and Growing Your Business        

American Entrepreneurship

Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs): Administered by the SBA, Centers are located around the country to be a local resource that is either free or low cost to small business owners. The Centers often reside within universities, colleges or state economic development agencies. Check out M eetups and LI Groups.

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Revolutionizing responsible tourism in Nicaragua

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Key components and actions of responsible tourism include benefitting local economic development, ensuring tourism development benefits the community and the environment, becoming part of the local culture, and reinvesting in the local region. Entrepreneurship is worth the risk. Responsible tourism’s positive impact.

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The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Ian Hathaway

I believe that Brad and I have created something that will be useful to many people, not just in entrepreneurship and community-building, but far beyond. Book Summary The Way Forward for Entrepreneurship Around the World We are in the midst of a startup revolution. But it was worth it.

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ESHIP Communities Ecosystem Builder: Dan Smith

Forward Cities

A: The ESHIP buzz is exciting not only for the Kansas City entrepreneurship community as a whole, but it’s also providing light to the underserved communities and helping to increase the conversation about inequalities and what’s needed to level playing fields as it relates to small business ownership. A: My why stems from my upbringing.

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Paulsen Award

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Composed of more than 130 top Oklahoma corporations and business organizations, the Roundtable provides important business development advice and assistance to the Governor, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and other state leaders. About the Paulsen Awards. Who is eligible? What will the recipients receive? The Process?

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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

Angry that such a tragedy could have occurred – indeed possibly directly attributable – as a result of Jake’s endeavours in the name of this thing we call entrepreneurship. In terms of building entrepreneurial capability, we are heading in the right direction to develop the talent that will power us into the 22nd Century.

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