Remove education Remove entrepreneurial ecosystem Remove startup
article thumbnail

Women entrepreneurs find success despite lack of access to investment capital

Source Link

As we foster the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, it’s important to design them to level the playing field for women. Despite an overall decline in entrepreneurship in the United States, women are still responsible for the launch of a large portion of business startups in recent years. Plenty of initiative.

article thumbnail

Welcome, SourceLink Nebraska!

Source Link

This was the first step in building Nebraska’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, but more funding was needed in order to expand the initiative statewide. According to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, all net new job creation is happening from startups less than five years old. Worth the wait. Job creation through entrepreneurship.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Live in the problem, not in the solution: How customer development has gone awry

This is going to be BIG.

I'm not a lean startup zealot, but there are obviously lots of aspects of it that can lead to a ton of insights about your business. I didn't come from the recruiting industry when I started Path 101, but I had been obsessed with career discovery as a mentor and educator for eight years before I thought of an idea I wanted to pursue.

article thumbnail

The Robert Moses Effect

This is going to be BIG.

We're seeing the same thing happen within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Many of those things will become companies--way more than we have now, and so, in a sense there will always be a shortage of engineers and other people to work at startups as long as you keep producing more innovators. In fact, let's get a second car.".

article thumbnail

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

Source Link

This differs from patterns we’ve seen in previous recessions, where startup job creation remains relatively stable in recessionary years. The growing number of entrepreneurs needing business startup and planning support was noticeable across the nation. More entrepreneurs, new needs.

article thumbnail

Join the International Celebration of Makers, Innovators and Job Creators November 8-14

Source Link

Individuals who had never considered launching a startup began creating businesses out of a combination of necessity and opportunity. The campaign introduces people to the path of entrepreneurship, creates opportunity for collaboration and facilitates access to capital and other resources that are vital to entrepreneurial success.

article thumbnail

Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

Source Link

One of my favorite thought leaders, Don Macke with the e2 Entrepreneurial Communities , often talks about the fact that entrepreneurial talent is universal, but thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems are not. In the e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems thought paper Why Entrepreneurship? Population, though 97% of U.S.