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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

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How can your programming be sustainable and live beyond this grant cycle? Ecosystem building is real work, and initiatives can fail when the necessary time and resource commitments aren’t taken into consideration. Network Communicator: It’s critical to share information about your work and celebrate successes with the community.

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Welcome, SourceLink Nebraska!

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This was the first step in building Nebraska’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, but more funding was needed in order to expand the initiative statewide. And in the rural areas, people just don't know what is always available, or don’t feel comfortable navigating multiple websites and having to call multiple places for information.

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The entrepreneur in all of us – How COVID revealed gaps and opportunities in the entrepreneurial landscape

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However, microbusiness owners need access to the information, expertise, and capital to grow and succeed.”. Their biggest need was access to information on what to do with businesses during the shutdown,” said Jenny Miller, a network builder at KCSourceLink. More entrepreneurs, new needs. Then, funding—how to pay the employees.

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Sustainable Work: ESHIP Goal 7

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Goal 7 Sustainable Work: Develop professional recognition and resources for ecosystem builders. In a nutshell : Entrepreneurial ecosystem building requires perseverance. We asked ecosystem builders why developing professional recognition and resources for ecosystem builders is important to them. Metro Area.

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SourceLink + The IEDC: New Certification Program Uniting Economic Developers and Entrepreneurs

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The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) and SourceLink® have partnered to deliver a solution — a certification course focused on educating economic developers with entrepreneurship-led economic development. If you’re interested in learning about becoming EDP-certified, visit the IEDC’s website for more information.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

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We found one of those exemplary steps in southern Virginia where the Dan River Region Entrepreneur Ecosystem recognized the need for an ecosystem coordinator and rallied their stakeholders to hire the first entrepreneurial ecosystem builder for the region. River and bridges in Danville. says Alexis.

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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

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Guests include other veteran entrepreneurs, mentors, and experts like attorneys and marketing specialists, including the leader of Verizon’s veteran employee resource group who shared information about Verizon support for small business owners along with his own personal experience as an entrepreneur.