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SBA Announces Community Navigator Model and Funding Opportunity

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This approach also requires entrepreneurial ecosystems incorporate new methods and business economic impact measures. The SBA Community Navigator framework envisions a lead nonprofit partner who can serve as a hub for the entrepreneurial community and the network building efforts. What is the SBA Community Navigator Model?

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The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream

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A Glimpse Inside The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream Today, my second book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream , was released by Simon & Schuster?—?but but its message has been more than a decade in the making.

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5 Questions with Ian Hathaway, co-author of The Startup Community Way

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The Startup Community Way is a book I co-authored with Techstars cofounder Brad Feld. It’s a collection of frameworks, principles, and action points that guide and inform practitioners and observers about the key characteristics, behavioral patterns, and basic function of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Book Review: Creating Startup Junkies

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As the field of entrepreneurial ecosystem building has started to grow over the last decade a few books dedicated exclusively to the topic have become valuable sources of information for ecosystem builders. I suspect many ecosystem builders will find the final sections of the book the most rewarding.

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A New Network for Startup Community Builders

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There’s a new community network emerging to help entrepreneurial ecosystem builders connect, learn, and grow— Startup Communities: The community for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. Startup Communities: The community for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders to connect, learn, and grow. Ecosystem Maps.

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The Soul of Ecosystem Building

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They might be motivated by the belief that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystem building is a way to make a difference in society. The real soul of an ecosystem builder is about ‘being’ versus ‘doing.’ We talk a lot about what ecosystem builders do, but not so much about the ‘being’ aspect of ecosystem building.

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A university’s role in an emerging startup community and other conversations

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As an example, with Disrupting Law, Berni, my PA, did all of the bookings for the rooms because this is one way we can use the access we have to be able to set things up. If you’ve ever had to do room bookings at a university, you’ll know just how much this sort of assistance needs.