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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

We owe a debt of gratitude to our tireless volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise, and dedication to our mission. More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened, and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted.

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. Improving the Field: Imagine a learning infrastructure supporting the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field widely seen as both efficient and innovative. What would that look like?

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Celebrating 2022 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

We are deeply grateful to our dedicated volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise and dedication to our mission. More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

What we found through our research are three essential areas to foster the professional and personal development of entrepreneurial ecosystem builders: Justifying and valuing their work: Building the business case for inclusive ecosystem building through fieldwide metrics . Training in collaboration, facilitation and leadership techniques. .

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

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. Eric Parker.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation identifies entrepreneurs that display characteristics of “exceptional social leadership through discretion, influence, vision, ambition, intelligence, and follow-through.”. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Requires Columbia affiliation.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation identifies entrepreneurs that display characteristics of “exceptional social leadership through discretion, influence, vision, ambition, intelligence, and follow-through.”. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Requires Columbia affiliation.

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