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How to Get Started Mapping Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem [Updated]

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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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Connect Your Startup Community through Content Creation

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A core tenet of ecosystem building is making connections—connecting entrepreneurs to people, information, and resources that can help them move their business forward. “An The one-on-one connecting that ecosystem builders do is a critical part of our role in facilitating the flow of information. Here’s some ideas on what to start with.

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The Startup Community Way: Five Lessons for U.S. Policymakers

Ian Hathaway

This article originally published on the Center for American Entrepreneurship Ideas Blog My new book with CAE Advisory Board member Brad Feld published yesterday. For this reason, the topic of “entrepreneurial ecosystems” has begun to play a bigger role in many economic policy agendas. Think in systems.

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How To Grow Your Economy. Build It, Don’t Buy It!

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Building Startup Communities is the Way to Economic Growth and Recovery. All across the country, communities need to jump start and rebuild their economies. The research and evidence supporting the impact and value of startup community building is strong. Ecosystems need to intentionally build and nurture a startup community.

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Startup Community Engagement During Covid

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Much of what we do as startup community builders requires in-person interactions through workshops, meetups, and other events. But the Covid pandemic pushed the big pause button on in-person events that are the beating heart of many startup communities. We’re leaning heavily on our digital platforms to keep the community engaged.

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Universal Support: ESHIP Goal 6

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There is a better way, and many of us know it—entrepreneurial ecosystem building. But ecosystem building still hasn’t gone mainstream—it’s a mostly unknown approach to economic development. In a nutshell: A thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem is championed by leaders throughout the community.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 2

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Practical Metrics and Methods (Academic Edition): Identify and develop better metrics and methods for ecosystem building. In a nutshell : There are many metrics and methods in use in entrepreneurial ecosystem building, but they are not all widely adopted. 3) If you’re a scholar, let’s collaborate on some papers/articles.