Future Here Now: how NOT to choke off entrepreneurs and small businesses!
To Do Next Week + Selections
This week’s Future Here Now focuses on our urgent need to grow a robust small business and entrepreneurship business sector — something we are not doing at all well, and something that we need more than ever.
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I am speaking and leading a workshop at the National Planning Conference, produced by the American Planning Association, this weekend. It’s on my model for evaluating and re-designing an entrepreneurship ecosystem. I laid this model out in in 2019 book, Everybody Innovates Here: Accelerating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Across Your Entire Community. But our good friend COVID screwed up my ability to actually put that model into action.
My session at APA (1 PM Sunday, if you’re attending! Check the program) will introduce the Big Idea and walk people through applying this model to a hypothetical community (one that might look familiar to a lot of you). This is the first time I’ve done this particular workshop, so I’m looking forward to the unexpected!
Part of the reason why I wanted to do this workshop at APA is because I am currently trying to find funders interested in supporting a bigger test of four mature entrepreneurship ecosystems, resulting in the development of a guide or playbook to help other communities do their own analysis and strategy development. If your community would be interested in participating, or if you know a funder who might be interested, let me know.
Here’s the link, and the download is the same slides with my notes for you. The download might make more sense.
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