Tag: Entrepreneurship
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See Ideas Come Alive at Seed Matchmaking Event
Please take note of an exciting event being held in conjunction with the Create WV Conference on Showshoe Mountain. The WV Angel Investor Network, Concord University’s Rahall Technology Center, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond are holding the Seed Capital Matchmaking event Wednesday 10/22 afternoon from 1:30pm – 5:00pm immediately following the closing session…
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Create WV Business Track Sessions Announced
How can West Virginia break the cycle of last-place rankings in job creation and new business start-ups? How can we attract the creative, educated talent required to build a thriving business community? What opportunities exist in energy, research, technology and creative sectors that will provide new high-paying jobs to rejuvenate our economy? The Business and…
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Can the Innovation Economy Save WV…and the US?
BusinessWeek has an interesting article on the “innovation economy” and the hope that focusing on the next major wave of productivity and quality of life innovations can spur on our lackluster economy. Historically, technological change has been the biggest force for productivity growth in the U.S. The latest figures show that “multifactor productivity”—a category that…
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Free Money – Just Add Business Plan
A reminder that three exciting workshops for business and “social” entrepreneurs are being held this week by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the WV Angel Investor Network. The primary goal of this seminar is to develop a compelling story about your business idea that will appeal to investors. Please bring a copy of…
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Catching Creative Economy Dreams
There are a handful of creative economy pioneers in West Virginia who are still going strong. Scot Jackson and his Dreamcatcher web services firm, launched in Charleston in 1996, are certainly among those who have blazed the high-tech trail within this industry segment. Scot and his growing staff were profiled in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. We’re…
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Got Funding?
Do you have a great idea or project that needs financial support? A new business? A public-private partnership that needs some investment? The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, in partnership with Create WV, is holding an exciting “seed capital matchmaking” event at the 2nd Annual Create WV Conference at Snowshoe Mountain Resort on Wednesday, October…
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Creative Class Roadkill
Dr. Richard Florida, the leading voice of the creative class concept, often highlights the fact that creative class workers cluster together in just a handful of major creative hubs in the U.S. and the world. What does this mean for those regions that do not currently have the creative magnet industries? Should we give up…
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Benchmarking Our Creative Efforts With the World
Now and then, it’s a good thing to check in on other regions and their efforts to build a creative economy and attract the creative class of entrepreneurs/employees that are required for it to thrive. Here are a few groups around the country (and world). What can we learn from their successes and failures? createwv.typepad.com…
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Should State Governments Invest in Start-Ups?
How do small states or states not traditionally strong in vibrant high-tech industry sectors catch up? In some cases, they focus the resources of the state to provide an investment spark. Is this a good idea? West Virginia entered into an experiment in venture capital investment a few years ago by divvying up $25 million…
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Growing From Within
Many folks have highlighted West Virginia’s historic reliance on two forces for “economic development”: 1) outside companies willing to locate facilities here, and 2) state government. Seeking the first leads to an intense focus on comparing our relative competitiveness on tax structure and incentives, seeking the second leads to an intense focus on central planning…