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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

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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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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?

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

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I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. Because you have a unitary focus on financing your company or you die you seem not to miss a beat in thinking about the last meeting and the funder has been whipsawed in 20 directions. everything.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

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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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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

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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. We are much more collaborative than we were 20 years ago, because we have realized that we can do more together.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

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What holds them back in their work (scarcity, silos, unrealistic expectations and an unwillingness to collaborate). The most challenging aspect in working with different ecosystem partners has been trying to get them to collaborate, or at least stop seeing each other as competitors. The frustrating reality of non-collaboration.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

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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. Ellen Bateman’s Goal 5 Experiences.