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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

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“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Identify Potential Allies.

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Scamnetic’s $13M Series A to Scale AI-Powered Scam Detection

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Its core product suite includes: Scan&Score : Scans all incoming communicationemails, texts, social media DMs, messaging apps, QR codes, and even imagesfor scam indicators in real-time. Scam Education : Continually updated resources that help individuals and companies stay informed on evolving scam tactics. consumers lost over $12.5

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How to engage resource partners: continuing the conversation

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These meetups can also provide an opportunity to invite the media and put the focus on your resource partners, who are always looking for ways to bring visibility and awareness to the work they do. According to Tiffany Nixon from NetWork Kansas , engagement should start at the local level.

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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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Identifying and filling these cultural competency gaps benefits your entire community, and it is an essential component of continued economic and social progress. These resources can help you get started: IEDC’s Playbook for Equitable Economic Development.

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Ben Franklin’s Spring 2024 TechCelerator Winners Announced!

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First place of $5,500 went to TDAY Sports , founded by Justin Leusner (Centre County): A social media marketing company targeting Gen-Z sports fans, TDAY Sports creates captivating content to fill the gap in sports media focused on younger generations. Out of the eight entrepreneurial teams, two were awarded prize money!

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Universal Support: ESHIP Goal 6

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And yet, our economic policies espoused by governments and traditional economic developers continue to focus on attracting existing big businesses. But ecosystem building still hasn’t gone mainstream—it’s a mostly unknown approach to economic development. The goal of ESHIP Goal 6 is to change that.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 2

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Some of her projects include: (With Norris Krueger) 2020: AOM 2020 PDW “Entrepreneur-Led Economic Development: Entrepreneurial Communities through New Eyes… the Right Eyes!” The research workshops blending scholars, educators, policy makers, entrepreneurial champions, and ecosystem builders can only get better [e.g.,