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How collective data and storytelling can lead to lasting impact for underserved entrepreneurs

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This is the only way communities will be able to make lasting impact and help diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners overcome ongoing systemic barriers to success. The SourceLink?

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How to Get Started Mapping Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem [Updated]

Ecosystem Builder Hub

The real super power of ecosystem mapping is how the mapping process and the actual map are used by the community as a catalyst to collaboratively strengthen the ecosystem. Most obviously, ecosystem maps can serve as a resource guide for entrepreneurs in the community. Finally, ecosystem mapping can be a catalyst for collaborations.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

As the extent and impact of COVID-19 becomes more apparent, entrepreneurs and small businesses are on the front lines of its devastating impact–and with their demise comes potentially catastrophic economic losses for local communities. According to JP Morgan Institute , 50 percent of small businesses have less than 30 days of cash on hand.

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Five Tips for SBA Community Navigator Pilot Program Awardees

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network become hubs and/or spokes, and eager for this program roll out as it mirrors our own philosophy of building collaborative networks of entrepreneurship and small business owner support. Hire and/or Assign a Hub Data Navigator – someone who will be able to set protocols and put procedures in place with all the Spokes.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Steven Rodriguez

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Someone who works at the intersection of economic/community/ecosystem development, is data-driven, collaborates and connects diverse stakeholders, focuses on being the right kind of busy and has a give #GiveFirst attitude. To you, what is an Ecosystem Builder? What motivates you as an ecosystem builder?

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Digip digitizes the process of applying for trademarks

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Viktor Johansson told TechCrunch that Digip was founded after its team saw that entrepreneurs are reluctant to use traditional law firms that bill by the hour. The platform enables this with a trademark warehouse that has updated trademark data. Data collection and updates are automated as Digip enter new markets.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. This experience makes learning to code more engaging, competitive, and collaborative than anything else on the market. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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