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In response, ACA wanted to provide our members and strategic partners some valuable updates, as we re-group post Summit for 2020 Showcase Awards, reflect on the past year, and look forward to what is in store for the organization. 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET - Leaders in Action Recap and 2020 Showcase Awards. Mark Rostal, DAI.
and abroad between February and September 2020. Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. How to measure what’s happening on-the-ground and capture the network of relationships and connections between people. Mara Hardy. Beth McKeon.
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and abroad between February and September 2020. I wish the small business ecosystem had something equivalent to the angel investor networks that support technology startups. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. Buddy Palmer. The need to professionalize an emerging field. Mara Hardy.
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68% of the groups are a network or a network with a sidecar fund. In the 2021 survey when asked to compare themselves to the previous twelve months people were obviously comparing themselves to 2020, the year in which almost everyone experienced lockdowns due to the COVID pandemic.
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