Global Entrepreneurship Week has a few goals, and one of the primary goals is to highlight entrepreneur service organizations. Kauffman Foundation did a study of St. Louis' startup ecosystem and its connections. The important takeaways from the study, from an…
They were fun times at the Illinois DCEO Business Resources Expo this morning at Peoria Next Innovation Center. Anthony Rolando of the regional chapter of the IL DCEO assembled an all-star cast of business resource organizations. If you weren't able…
Seasoned startup community mapper Shane Reiser tells us why he thinks it's super important to measure the elusive startup community. Here are his points: Save the dying startups – Reiser suggests that it might be more efficient to save a…
How to create the next Silicon Valley – that is the question. The answer most people who care to take a stab at it is usually to add a bunch of VC money to a research institution or to a…
Source: http://www.inc.com/kim-kaupe/4-mentors-that-every-entrepreneur-needs.html
This post is the second in a three part series of my own creation, based upon a session with angel investors I attended at EntreFEST 2015 in Iowa City. Read the first post here. Lesson Two – Discovering Investor Whys Those…
One of the sessions I attended at EntreFEST was titled "Secrets of Angel Investors". [No, that period doesn't belong inside the quotation marks.] Grammar aside, the angel investor session was insightful. The session was formatted as a panel discussion. There…
Iowa City played host to nearly 1000 members of the statewide Iowa startup community, and it was impressive. In fact, Seth Godin was the keynote speaker. Godin is the author of several books about marketing and leadership and spreading ideas.…
How does one go about measuring a startup ecosystem? Is it even worth trying to do so? Of course! Defining success means measuring how certain factors and actions lead to positive economic growth. Knowing what to measure will help us…