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A New Network for Startup Community Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

There’s a new community network emerging to help entrepreneurial ecosystem builders connect, learn, and grow— Startup Communities: The community for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. Startup Communities: The community for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders to connect, learn, and grow. Storytelling.

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SBA Announces Community Navigator Model and Funding Opportunity

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While it appears the SBA will be applying this approach to the existing SBA-funded national network such as SBDCs, SCORE and Women Business Centers, the announcement indicates a new funding opportunity will soon open for states, tribes, units of local governments and other nonprofit organizations. What is the SBA Community Navigator Model?

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5 EO Australia Women Share How To Make Entrepreneurship More Inclusive

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Franc.World aims to change this narrative by opening the doors to conversations about self-discovery and future career paths at a younger age through their multimedia offering that includes books, documentaries and podcasts. When we can create equal opportunities for education and training, we can see greater equality for women in business.

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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. Permalink.

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Is American Entrepreneurship In Crisis?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I began comparing my personal experience as an entrepreneur starting my business 50 years ago to the entrepreneurial ecosystem today. Who is the audience for this book? These business and mentorship networks have made great strides helping entrepreneurs in local communities across the U.S.

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The Startup Community Way. and more from Maine.

EntreWorks Consulting

This new book follows up on Feld’s excellent 2012 work Startup Communities , which I still consider to be among the best guides to entrepreneurial ecosystem building. This new work digs deeper into the real life challenges facing ecosystem builders, with a focus on sustaining this work over the long term. Check it out!

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We found one of those exemplary steps in southern Virginia where the Dan River Region Entrepreneur Ecosystem recognized the need for an ecosystem coordinator and rallied their stakeholders to hire the first entrepreneurial ecosystem builder for the region. Defining long-term success in ecosystem building.