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SBA Announces Community Navigator Model and Funding Opportunity

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This approach also requires entrepreneurial ecosystems incorporate new methods and business economic impact measures. The SBA Community Navigator framework envisions a lead nonprofit partner who can serve as a hub for the entrepreneurial community and the network building efforts. What is the SBA Community Navigator Model?

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The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Ian Hathaway

After three eventful years , I’m excited to say that my new book— The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem , with Brad Feld —is officially available to the public today! It’s my first book, so this is a new feeling. It wasn’t always fun; writing a book of this nature is really hard work.

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WealthWorks at Work

EntreWorks Consulting

To briefly summarize, WealthWorks is an asset-based community development strategy that helps region to understand their assets (forms of community wealth) and to help grow and retain assets that remain anchored in the community. Economic developers all focus on building some kind of wealth, normally in the form of money or jobs.