Tag - e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

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 Jenkins chaired the Entrepreneurship Industry Council as part of Blueprint Nebraska. Jim and his Council members traveled our physically large and diverse state...

e2 In-Depth: Community Capacity Building

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Community Capacity Building Building Blocks for Community Development Success If you have spent any time with our e2 resources you know we constantly make a point that in America, unlike most other developed countries in the world, each community is primarily responsible for its own development and...

e2 In-Depth: Urban America is Filling Up

By: Don Macke with Ann Chaffin, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Urban America is Filling Up Opportunities for Rural America From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean there is a vast continent that since the 1600s has empowered the movement of European and Spanish American settlers to constantly be on the move in search of...

e2 In-Depth: Community Leadership

By: Don Macke with Ann Chaffin, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Community Leadership Growing an Entrepreneurial Community Building an entrepreneurial community requires the right kind of leadership. Where there is the right kind of community leadership, opportunities for moving from crisis to success dramatically increase. We've put together a collection of resources on leadership we hope you find...

e2 In-Depth: Lessons from Central Appalachia

By: Don Macke with Ann Chaffin, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Special Thanks to Deb Markley and Dana Williams Central Appalachia is a landscape rich in both culture and natural resources. It is also a landscape with biting poverty and residents struggling to realize the American dream of prosperity. The decline of king coal...

e2 In-Depth: Mega Trends and Rural America

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems We live in a very complex and dynamic global economy and society. Change seems to be accelerating. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic illustrates how globally interrelated we are now. With the start of each new year new content is generated focused on the future and what...

e2 In-Depth: 2020 Anthology of e2 Work

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Despite a worldwide pandemic health crisis, recession, all the Zoom conferences, and a presidential election, we close out another productive year. Here's a compilation of original white papers we shared on entrepreneurship and ecosystem building. Read on. NetWork Kansas is the home for e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems,...

e2 In-Depth: Is Your Community a JEDI Hometown?

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and David Iaquinta Is Your Community a JEDI Hometown? Growing Entrepreneurial Communities The United States has grown and developed in large part by waves of new residents bringing their histories, values, customs, foods, religions, and so much more. While America has been a land of opportunity for...

e2 In-Depth: Broadband and Rural America Restart, Recovery and Resiliency

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Broadband and Rural America Restart, Recovery and Resiliency The world COVID-19 pandemic health crisis has greatly disrupted our lives with millions of Americans now infected and deaths approaching 215,000 according to Johns Hopkins University data. While the worst effects of the pandemic have largely impacted more...

e2 In-Depth: How hardship, leadership, philanthropy, and a 20-year vision built an entrepreneurial community

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Ord, Nebraska An Entrepreneurial Community In the 1980s Ord and its region were in crisis facing serious challenges and the potential it could go the way of so many other rural communities into continued decline losing vitality along the way. By the 1990s Ord was facing...