EntreWorks Consulting

MARCH 10, 2020

In recent years, many states and communities have embraced food systems and ag/food sector development as core economic development strategies. This is a field with lots of innovation and creativity underway, but one of my favorite efforts has been Vermont’s Farm to Plate programming.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Indeed, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade & Investment Agency in London have even been known to fund Italian entrepreneurs abroad to help them gain more experience. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

At the Democracy at Work Institute I run our SEED (Shared Equity in Economic Development) program, working with city governments and their community partners to foster the conditions to grow employee-owned businesses in their communities. So we need to think creatively about how to join multiple tools in multi-pronged strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In order to contextualize the opportunity that exists for the Internet outside of Silicon Valley these days you can take inspiration from the history of technology evolution across many markets throughout history. No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

As Henry Rael put it, ecosystem builders look at the “challenges and opportunities in the context of the larger systems in which they occur.” Someone who scopes out, provides strategy, and knows how to support, cheerlead, and provide sweat-equity to work toward collaborative economic development goals.”

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

The traditional economic development approach uses static and reactive metrics – the number of jobs created, capital investment dollars, and companies recruited – on an annual basis. They learn how to develop community goals and strategies to achieve those. Metrics do that. It is led by Chapman & Co.,

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work.

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