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05.31.17
What Cities Can Learn from the Rise of Innovation Districts
Entrepreneurship and innovation do not exist in a vacuum. In fact that’s why I find the work I do so fulfilling; it touches so many facets of the economy and impacts positively so many people’s potential and future. One trend that particularly fascinates me the rise of so-called Innovation Districts around the globe. Barcelona is […]
Read More05.26.17
Do You Have What It Takes To Be Mentored?
Mentors keep us honest and empower us to trek forward on our entrepreneurial journeys. That forward movement often means encountering challenges and working through them. A great deal of the struggles women experience in the business world doesn’t necessarily come from their external environments, but rather from within. Call it saboteurs—those voices in our heads […]
Read More05.24.17
Nonprofit Leaders as “Adaptive” Business Builders
Entrepreneurship isn’t just for start-up or growth-oriented for profit ventures. Business Builders (AKA entrepreneurs) – a more global and inclusive term coined by Gallup – can spawn from all walks of organizational life – associations, non-profit charities, educational institutions (think about how Purdue is disrupting education with the Kaplan acquisition), government agencies (hard to imagine!), […]
More05.17.17
3 Ways to Bootstrap Your Business
Bootstrapping is a fancy word for “self-funding” your venture. Self-funding can take many different flavors – credit cards, friends & family, customer billable projects and the like. While a small percentage of all ventures are able to secure thirdy party investment from angel investors, the average US startup launched today requires upwards of $117,000 to […]
Read More05.14.17
EntreLeadership
This past Friday, the NIIC Senior Leadership Team attended the 1-Day EntreLeadership event in Chicago featuring Chris Hogan, Christy Wright and Dave Ramsey. This was both a terrific team building opportunity for our NIIC team to dive into the applicability to our business model as well as an inspirational day of leaning into the character quality concepts and […]
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