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Your startups (probably) don’t need capital

by Beth McKeon | Dec 3, 2020 | Accelerators, Entrepreneurial Support Organizations

How do you know what the founders in your network or community need? Ask any founder what they need most and they will say “capital.” When startup founders are new at this innovation process, they tend to be fairly unsophisticated in their understanding and ability to...

What does success look like before we can measure jobs created or funding raised?

by Beth McKeon | Dec 3, 2020 | Accelerators, Entrepreneurial Support Organizations

Every city with economic development policy focusing on entrepreneurship needs a way to measure and demonstrate return on investment. Every dollar spent on supporting startups needs to be justified to the civic organizations, grant-makers, private economic development...

Startups aren’t businesses. They’re speculations

by Beth McKeon | Dec 3, 2020 | Accelerators, Entrepreneurial Support Organizations

Today, I indulged in one of my guilty pleasures, the TV show “Gold Rush: Alaska”. Despite my aversion to the devastation to the land their mining creates, I just can’t help falling a little bit in love with these scrappy amateur miners. They signed up for insanely...

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