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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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Startup Fundraising that Meets Investor Expectations

American Entrepreneurship

That includes angel investors, venture capitalists, and institutional funders associated with various stages of a startup’s growth. They also look for certain traits in the founder such as vision, passion, and leadership to build the right team. For a solo entrepreneur, they look for experience and significant accomplishments.

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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. I believe it is that this vision is too visionary for the majority of our existing leadership ecosystem. To you, what is an Ecosystem Builder? ”(Startup Champions Network).

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

From Tobacco & manufacturing to entrepreneurship. We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out.

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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. How to measure the impact of people collaborating. I’d like to be a more skilled collaborator.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship. I asked them to treat me like a funder. Voices from the field. We have done work in more than twenty states at this point.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. The frustrating reality of non-collaboration. Why won’t you play? Taj Ahamd-Eldridge.