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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. Starting and growing a business can prove to be a daunting endeavor within any market.

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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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These resources can help you get started: IEDC’s Playbook for Equitable Economic Development. Living Cities’ Cities and Businesses of Color: A Guide to Economic Growth. Culturally competent consulting service provider ThirdEye Network. Make your ecosystem sustainable. Make your ecosystem adaptable.

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A National Project to Advance Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building

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The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) seeks to collaboratively design, create, and validate a field-wide infrastructure that will help accelerate wider understanding and adoption of ecosystem building as a practice in economic, community, workforce, and entrepreneurship development in the United States. “The

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NJEDA Names Inaugural New Jersey Innovation Fellows Cohort

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in income replacement grants and mentorship to first-time entrepreneurs, creating 10 new businesses and helping fuel innovation in strategic sectors The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the inaugural cohort of the New Jersey Innovation Fellows (NJIF) program.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. We advocate for policies that support these conditions and encourage cross-sector collaborations to address the complex social and environmental challenges we all face.

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Book Review: Creating Startup Junkies

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Now there is a new book to add to the ecosystem building library — Creating Startup Junkies: Building Sustainable Venture Ecosystems in Unexpected Places by Jeff Amerine and Jeff Standridge. Jeff Standridge has been an invited speaker, trainer and consultant for numerous companies, institutions and organizations across five continents.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Mark Lawrence

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I come from a Big 4 management consultant firm background so I take a professional services approach to the work and that often means engaging in a number of projects in parallel. The sales cycle for sustainable ecosystem type projects is long and they don’t often present themselves as ecosystem building work. Let’s chat.