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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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Microenterprise and Main Street companies are especially important for our rural communities, and should be carefully considered in rural economic development. Research included in the report demonstrates that “regions and local economies with strong entrepreneurship bases achieve faster and more sustainable economic growth.”.

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BasiGo secures $4.3 million in seed funding to accelerate mass transit EV adoption in Kenya

TechCrunch

“With East Africa’s abundant renewable energy, this market can leapfrog to clean, modern electric transit at the exact moment that African cities emerge as the next center of economic growth. BasiGo plans to supply over 1,000 mass transit electric buses to transport operators in Nairobi over the next five years.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Part of the money frm the Biden plan will aim to redevelop brownfields and turn them into more sustainable businesses.

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Expanding Our Entrepreneurial Imagination in Indianapolis

Forward Cities

This past April, we invited a group of ecosystem practitioners from Buffalo, Richmond, and Jacksonville to see how different communities in Indianapolis are seeking to provide greater access, financing, and support for entrepreneurs of color and others who are disconnected from traditional business networks.

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What Will Workplaces Look Like After The Pandemic?

Impact Hub

For Impact Hub, it made the liquid and digital elements of our network more important than ever, and at the same time encouraged us to reflect and pivot certain aspects of how we operate and how we provide support to Impact Hubs and our members across the globe. The crisis is an opportunity to create impact.