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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Identify Potential Allies.

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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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To effectively support any entrepreneur, you must develop an infrastructure of resources in your community. After working with over 100 communities, we know that resources tend to cluster around the type of entrepreneur served and stage of business. Include resources that specialize in supporting new entrepreneurs.

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Maine’s Coworking Development Fund

EntreWorks Consulting

Our latest edition of EntreWorks Insights examined the power of place, i.e., how community gathering places can help build social capital and promote economic development. These powerful places can take many forms, including business offices, libraries and coworking spaces, among others. EntreWorks Blog.

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Nonprofit chooses Wilmington, Delaware, for $2.3M medical scheduling center that will create 227 jobs

American Entrepreneurship

BlindSight Delaware Enterprises plans regional hub to train and employ Delawareans with visual and other disabilities, Delaware veterans and statewide Promise Communities residents in on-site and remote positions. BSDE’s call center will be located in the CSC Station coworking space, which is adjacent to Joseph R. WILMINGTON, Del.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Ellen Bateman

Ecosystem Builder Hub

In my role, I serve as the national organizer for Global Entrepreneurship Week in the United States. GEW is the world’s largest celebration of entrepreneurship. This year, I identified volunteers to serve State Coordinators and Community Organizers. It takes place for one week each November in over 170 countries.

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Post-pandemic shifts means Patch will take co-working to UK small towns and suburbs

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Patch says its “Work Near Home” idea is geared to the post-COVID “hybrid working” movement and it plans to create public venues, “with a focus of entrepreneurship, technology, and cultural programming.”. In Chelmsford, their first space will be a Victorian brewery, for instance. Grays Yard.

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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. and abroad between February and September 2020. Ellen Bateman.