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Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. and abroad between February and September 2020.
Angel Capital Association
JANUARY 13, 2022
We owe a debt of gratitude to our tireless volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise, and dedication to our mission. The DEI Task Force has developed and published a formal ACA DEI Policy and set its strategic goals for 2022. 2021 was a year filled with more opportunities for angels to interact and learn.
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Ecosystem Builder Hub
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. After a several months of collaborative online exploration and development, over 70 volunteers convened in Indianapolis in early September to move the project forward. What would that look like?
Angel Capital Association
JANUARY 26, 2023
We are deeply grateful to our dedicated volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise and dedication to our mission. Seed the Future contributions have allowed us to develop strategic marketing campaigns and target new stakeholders including the economic development community that has been hungry for our education.
EntreWorks Consulting
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Folks in the business of community building know the story when it comes to outside funders. Starved for funds, grantees can’t invest in retaining talent, training people, developing new skills, and maintaining an experience base about what works in the field. They fund projects, not organizations.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
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. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. Beth Zimmer.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
JUNE 20, 2020
Practical Metrics and Methods (Practitioner Edition): Identify and develop better metrics and methods for ecosystem building. Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship.
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