e2 In-Depth: Rural Retailing and Area Spending Capture

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems In the United States, we are firmly rooted in a consumer-based economy. Every day we make money and then spend it, meeting our material […]

e2 In-Depth: Insights from Ord, Nebraska

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems We are excited to announce that our rural community prosperity development e-Learning Courses are now available online. This free professional development resource is a guided case […]

e2 In-Depth: Regional Development and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Over the decades e2 has worked throughout North America. We observed that rural communities who partnered with strong regional development organizations had more robust […]

e2 In-Depth: New Resources for 2022

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems At e2, we not only have written a chapter (more on that below), but we have new resources we are excited to share this […]

e2 In-Depth: New Resident Attraction – Development Opportunities for Rural America

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with  Kimberlee Spillers People attraction, development, and retention is an essential element in growing more prosperous rural communities. It is also one of e2’s […]

e2 In-Depth: Tourism-Led Development, Opportunities for Rural America

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with  Kimberlee Spillers This month’s feature paper, Tourism-Led Development, Opportunities for Rural America, provides strategies for growing a more competitive, higher value, diverse, and resilient economy around […]

e2 In-Depth: Marginalized Rural Americans

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with  Kimberlee Spillers These days, America seems so divided and too much of rural America’s landscape is challenged by increasingly marginalized populations. In the […]

e2 In-Depth: Energizing Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building in Keene, New Hampshire

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with Mary Ann Kristiansen Energizing Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building in Keene, New Hampshire This month’s downloadable story and podcast episode focuses on Mary Ann and the highly successful efforts […]

e2 In-Depth: Retiree-Led Development

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with Kimberlee Spillers Retiree-Led Development A Likely Entrepreneurial Development Opportunity For Rural America, possibly the largest under-recognized entrepreneurial development opportunity is related to retirees. […]

e2 In-Depth: Foundational Infrastructure for Entrepreneurial Communities

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with a spotlight on SourceLink In the last few years, my home state of Nebraska undertook strategic visioning. Our good friend and serial entrepreneur Jim […]