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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. After a several months of collaborative online exploration and development, over 70 volunteers convened in Indianapolis in early September to move the project forward. What would that look like?

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. What do I do now? I call it, “Remind me why I love you again?”

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We appreciate collaboration and work diligently to identify appropriate networks & partners within ecosystems to convene and apply solutions collectively. We’ve also had some success in convening ecosystem actors to discuss and share programs, refer entrepreneurs, etc. To you, what is an Ecosystem Builder?

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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. River and bridges in Danville. Dream Launch Business Program.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Policy and collaboration with policy, academic and funding institutions. Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. I hope to gain more understanding of cultural differences and how they influence an entrepreneurs’ decisions.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Having worked in entrepreneurial ecosystem building ourselves, we were not surprised that the main challenges in our field arise around a typical old-school mindset and a severe lack of equal opportunities for entrepreneurs of ALL ethnicities, backgrounds and gender. The consequences of underrepresenting the New Majority, and . Eric Parker.

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Chief Executive Officer

Forward Cities

Overview Forward Cities is a national nonprofit with a firm belief that every entrepreneur deserves an equitable chance to launch and grow a business that generates wealth for themselves, their families, and their communities.

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