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Aymium’s Facility is 1st Large-scale Use of Biocarbon to Replace Coal in Power generation

American Entrepreneurship

Mennell brings 30-plus years in the energy, bio-products, and environmental sectors with companies that include Cargill, Koch Industries, 3M, and GE. He also founded, led, and grew bio-based product, energy, and environmental companies. Japan Green Investment Corp.

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15 Underrepresented Founders Share $170K in Startup302 Grant Prizes

American Entrepreneurship

Sellers of the Women’s Business Center at True Access Capital ; Billy Taki of ResilienceVC ; Amy Walls of Discover Bank ; Troy Wilford of Horn Entrepreneurship ; and Laura Wisler of the Delaware Division of Small Business. These included a welcome reception on May 15 and a breakfast with investors on May 17.

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Revitalizing Your Resource Partner Network

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Spring is a season of growth and new beginnings that often leads to a renewed sense of energy and motivation. There’s a lot to be optimistic about for entrepreneurship-led economic development. These consistent conversations recently resulted in West Virginia Business Link’s successful entrepreneurship event— Bridging Innovation Week.

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

TechCrunch

Whether it’s dedicated impact funds or value-based venture capital firms, funders tend to back companies that have demonstrated their ability to scale. Due diligence is not about checking off boxes or completing paperwork; it’s about creating long-lasting value for you, the portfolio company.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

From Tobacco & manufacturing to entrepreneurship. In doing this work, there has been a significant amount of investment of both funds and time in moving entrepreneurship activities forward. Despite having both those pieces, we were not having the success moving the initiative forward as successfully as we wanted. Challenges.

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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. Mara Hardy.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover. Cities need to be ready to harness this creative energy as part of their response plans. This is particularly true of Main Street businesses and families in under-connected and under-resourced communities.