Melting Pots and Building Blocks- The Founding of Piddlin’ Rooster
FASTER WV: Boosting Entrepreneurship, Startups and Business Expansion
Are you aware that West Virginia lags far behind Appalachia, and the nation, in entrepreneurial and start-up activity? In fact, the Kauffman Foundation’s 2017 State Report found that WV ranked last in startup early job creation with a third as many jobs created as the leading state, and below the...
Minimum Viable Testing and How You Can Use It in Your Startup
The MVP Problem
The venerable MVP, or Minimally Viable Product, has long been the measure for which most startups begin their market/A-B testing. It’s taught in nearly every prototyping seminar, early entrepreneurship education programs, and in most colleges of business. It’s tried and it’s true—but is it the best we can...
West Virginia Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Update December 2021
Program Spotlight for December
Downtown Appalachia: Revitalizing Recreational Economies (DARRE)
Stephanie Tyree, Executive Director, WV Community Development Hub [email protected] Ray Moeller, Economic Redevelopment Specialist, WVU Northern Brownfields Assistance Center [email protected] DARRE is a three-year program partnership between the WV Community Development Hub, WV Northern Brownfields Assistance Center, Woodlands...
Small Businesses’ Gift to You This Holiday Season . . . Come In, We’re Open!
While we’re not completely out of the woods yet from the COVID-19 health crisis, we’ve come far enough that seeing our loved ones in person this holiday season and joining in some actual (versus virtual) merriment is looking like a real possibility. However, both shoppers and businesses...
West Virginia Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Update November 2021
Program Spotlight for November
Tamarack Foundation for the Arts
Spotlight Program:
Domenica Queen Programming & Operations Director, [email protected]
Tamarack Foundation for the Arts helps to grow West Virginia’s creative economy by providing essential programs that equip Mountain State artists and creative entrepreneurs with the skills necessary to succeed and thrive...
West Virginia Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Update October 2021
Program Spotlight for October
Small Communities Big Solutions
Sara Payne Scarbro, Alliance for the Economic Development of Southern WV [email protected]
This annual event showcases all the successes and highlights what is working across the southern part of the state. Each year a mix of community leaders, educators,...
The Importance of Starting…and Actually Doing Something
What’s stopping you? I mean, really, what’s stopping you? You’ve done the research, you’ve done the preliminary plans, listened to all the right podcasts, sat in all of the webinars, did all the right things...except you have nothing to show for it. In every single aspect of life- education, careers, relationships,...
West Virginia Entrepreneurship Update September 2021
Program Spotlight for September
2021-2022 WV Statewide Business Plan
Tara St. Clair, Director of Operations, Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship [email protected] Tara provided updates regarding the 2021-2022 WV Statewide Business Plan Competitions. The competitions provide high school and college students across the state of West Virginia with the unique...
West Virginia Entrepreneurship Update July 2021
