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Strategy, measurement, and practical pieces for ecosystem builders.
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No Wrong Door: How Scott Asmus Is Building Nebraska’s Entrepreneurial Navigation System
Scott Asmus did not come to entrepreneurship with a traditional playbook. He came with an outsider’s eye, a deep belief in putting people first, and a determination to make Nebraska’s entrepreneurial ecosystem easier to navigate. Through SourceLink Nebraska, he is helping turn a maze of resources into a connected system built around real people, real needs, and real movement.
Economic Development
Be Prepared So Your Community Can Count on You
Financial disruption, cyberattacks, and infrastructure failures require the same planning as natural disasters. Water rescues on a flooded Main Street. Sandbags and boarded up storefronts on a Gulf coastline. Merchants...
Funding & Resources
Beyond the Grant: How Entrepreneurship-led Ecosystem Builders Fund for Resilience
Many of us feel like we have been playing financial Jenga the last couple of years. When a federal grant is pulled here or a state allocation is pulled there,...
Events calendar
Worth showing up to.
Practitioner-vetted conferences, webinars, and field events. Submittable by the community.
Also in the library
Tools, a book, and a research stack.
Free tool
Network Strength Scorecard
A free community self-assessment for ecosystem builders. Analyze your community's strengths and gaps to share with your stakeholders.
Book
Beyond Collisions
Our practical guide to entrepreneurial infrastructure. Twenty years of field-tested strategy.
Learn
Professional Development
Online courses to help economic developers and ecosystem builders with grant writing, public speaking and more.
Library
Research & playbooks
Curated research papers, operational playbooks, toolkits, and regional studies.
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