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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

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We see a variety of staffing models, including collaboration between more than one organization. They take a collaborative approach to staffing and funding these positions with responsibilities divided between the Iowa Economic Development Authority and the Center for Business Growth and Innovation at the University of Northern Iowa.

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Vista Equity Partners AI Hackathon Winners Announced

American Entrepreneurship

The winners in six categories are: Bonterra , Best Overall, used Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline the grant review process for funders, a major challenge in the grant-making space. UDC Chief Operating Officer David A. Franklin summed up the importance of holding the hackathon with participation of HBCU students.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We appreciate collaboration and work diligently to identify appropriate networks & partners within ecosystems to convene and apply solutions collectively. Through an effective PR/Educational campaign, we’ve affected the shift to much more of a focus on encouraging more startups and risk taking.

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ACA Announces Partnership with Thompson Hine

Angel Capital Association

As a central component of this new partnership, Thompson Hine is providing meaningful educational opportunities to angel investors and angel group leaders to benefit the angel investment community. ACA is pleased to enhance our strong resource list of early stage legal advisors with a new partnership with Thompson Hine.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Someone who could understand the current landscape, help envision where we want to be and collaboratively develop a plan to get there.”. We have extremely talented people in our entrepreneurship support network, but as with all collaborative efforts, partnerships can also bring their own set of challenges. says Alexis.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

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Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. Policy and collaboration with policy, academic and funding institutions. How to measure the impact of people collaborating. I’d like to be a more skilled collaborator. Melanie Lenci.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

What holds them back in their work (scarcity, silos, unrealistic expectations and an unwillingness to collaborate). The most challenging aspect in working with different ecosystem partners has been trying to get them to collaborate, or at least stop seeing each other as competitors. The frustrating reality of non-collaboration.