This presentation was part of the Growing Entrepreneurial Communities Summit, a practitioner-focused summit designed to help economic development and small business practitioners effectively create economic growth through entrepreneurship in local communities. The 2018 Summit, subtitled Entrepreneurship on the Edges, focused on providing information and practitioner insight in how to effectively develop disadvantaged urban and rural communities using entrepreneurship-led development strategies.

2. Left Out? Or Place of Most Potential?

3. Boston
Silicon Valley
Seattle
Portland
Boulder
Austin
Raleigh/Durham
Northern Virginia

4. Baltimore
Rochester
Pittsburg
Kansas City
Boise
Columbus
Denver

5. Akron
Albany
Buffalo
Cleveland
Detroit

6. Montgomery, Phillips,
and Reno Counties,
Kansas
Imperial County,
Nebraska
Barry and Dickinson
Counties, Michigan

7. Ones on the edges
Places that go
unnoticed
People who
continue to take
risks

8. “At any gathering of people, from the high school assembly to the
General Assembly at the UN, from a conference to a rehearsal at the
orchestra, the really interesting conversations and actions almost
always happen around the edges.
If you could eavesdrop on the homecoming queen or the sitting prime
minister, you’d hear very little of value. These folks think they have
too much to lose to do something that feels risky, and everything
that’s interesting is risky. Change almost always starts at the edges
and moves toward the center.”
…Seth Godin

10.  In the power of starting and growing companies
 Growth occurs when companies have the resources to grow larger
 There is power in data and the stories its tells
 In a balanced approach to economic development
 In building bridges
 In equity
 That every community and individual have the right to be successful
 It is time for a mindset change

11.  Groups, places and people on
the edge
 Job growth
 Workforce development
 Building entrepreneurial
ecosystems
 The power of looking through
a different lens

12. To yourself and others

13. Listen to the
conversations of others
Look deeply at your
communities
Pay attention to your
thoughts

14. Of yourself and others

18.  Women in Tech
 Felecia Hatcher, Co-Founder of Code Fever Miami
 Talent and the Rural Challenge
 Noris Krueger, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Management &
Entrepreneurship School of Advance Studies
 Diverse Entrepreneurial Communities
 Richard May, Chief Executive Officer, Innovation Village Districts
 Growth Entrepreneurs on the Edges
 Paul Bateson, General Manager, Economic Gardening, Edward
Lowe Foundation

19. The Heart of a Startup Champion
 Enoch Elwell, Founder, Co.Starters
Why Entrepreneurship? The Metrics, the Message
 Mark Lange, Executive Director, UW-System, Business &
Entrepreneurship
The Next Chapter: Senior Entrepreneurs
 Elizabeth Isele, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Global
Institute for Experienced Entrepreneurship
Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs: Generation Z
 Ann Dewvall, Manager, Entrepreneurship Communities,
Network Kansas

24. Penny Lewandowski
Senior Consultant, External Relations
Edward Lowe Foundation
www.edwardlowe.org