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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

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Entrepreneurs are key contributors to job creation and economic stability, so your long-term strategy should include ways to support their success by building effective entrepreneurship ecosystems. Network Navigator: Often, entrepreneurs need a knowledgeable person to help them connect to resources. Evolve with your ecosystem.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

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As the extent and impact of COVID-19 becomes more apparent, entrepreneurs and small businesses are on the front lines of its devastating impact–and with their demise comes potentially catastrophic economic losses for local communities. As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

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We create spaces and formats that encourage radical collaboration between these actors and impact entrepreneurs, to build a sense of shared purpose and drive collaborative action on systemic issues. The Impact Hub approach supports the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems that are responsive to the needs of impact entrepreneurs.

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Solution Stories: Expanding Opportunity in Franklin County, Ohio

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Six successful restaurant and retail entrepreneurs will be matched with a team of high-level consultants and executives from diverse fields and given the tools to uplevel their growing businesses. . One of the unique things about the work of Forward Cities is the placed-based focus of the entrepreneurial ecosystem-building work.

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Expanding Opportunity In Franklin County, Ohio

Forward Cities

Six successful restaurant and retail entrepreneurs will be matched with a team of high-level consultants and executives from diverse fields and given the tools to uplevel their growing businesses. One of the unique things about the work of Forward Cities is the placed-based focus of the entrepreneurial ecosystem-building work.

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Startup Community Engagement During Covid

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While some have scaled back significantly and are focusing their energies elsewhere, others have been very creative and resourceful, pivoting and standing up new programs to connect and engage the startup community. The responses varied considerably. Peter Cimino shared the challenges they and many others face. “We

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

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Practical Metrics and Methods (Practitioner Edition): Identify and develop better metrics and methods for ecosystem building. In a nutshell : There are many metrics and methods in use in entrepreneurial ecosystem building, but they are not all widely adopted. I asked them to treat me like a funder.