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

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Incubators and coworking spaces offer programing services and are an affordable and efficient alternative to full-scale offices. University entrepreneurship and innovation centers that partner with the community to provide tools, facilities and education to local business owners.

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Inclusive Capacity-Building in Action

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Forward Cities is a national capacity-building and learning network working within and between cities and micropolitans to create more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem development. Fay Horwitt, Vice President of Community Innovation explains the Forward Cities’ Theory of Change model. This is the mission of Forward Cities.

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Introducing CO.STARTERS in New Kensington, PA

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About a year ago, the Westmoreland County Innovation Council set out to discover what barriers exist in the sister cities of New Kensington and Arnold, PA that keep local entrepreneurs from accessing the appropriate resources to more fully participate in revitalization efforts.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

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This post is part of a series featuring highlights from the Unsung Heroes of Ecosystem Building campaign which shone a spotlight on 40+ entrepreneurial ecosystem builders from around the U.S. My biggest frustration I encounter is silos in ecosystems. and abroad between February and September 2020. Ellen Bateman.