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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. Here are five tips to consider when engaging and supporting new business owners in your community—read on to learn more. Include resources that specialize in supporting new entrepreneurs.

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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

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The work of supporting the entrepreneurs in our communities is challenging as it is. But when you factor in the need to engage with and educate the broader community it’s an even bigger challenge. Who in government or the business world also has a mission to help and support entrepreneurs, startups, or small businesses?

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Sustainable Work: ESHIP Goal 7

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In this void, they must often rely on their instincts, personal support systems, and ad hoc revenue streams. To sustain the work of ecosystem building, we must equip our practitioners for the long haul with a professional job description, training programs, ongoing peer support, and sustainable funding models.

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Impact Hub Bergen: Where History Meets Innovation

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Silje had a vision for a space that would invite interactions between unlikely allies in the name of creativity and innovation. The coworking space opened its doors in September 2011, as the first of its kind in Norway. It was founded by Silje Grastveit, an alumni of the renowned Kaospilot programme in Denmark.

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Top Ann Arbor Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2021

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Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. Not only that, but Ann Arbor is home to great people. So they created Workit Health.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

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I wish the small business ecosystem had something equivalent to the angel investor networks that support technology startups. In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs.

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Child Care & Coworking Part 1

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*note: I received so much good feedback from the spaces and women I spoke with that this will be a multi part series so it doesn’t end up being the length of a short novel. Space: Dayhouse coworking. What made you want to add childcare to your coworking space? Space: MOMentum Coworking.