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Bridging Innovation 2023 Thanks for Attending

Bridging Innovation Week 2023 Exceeds Expectations with Record-Breaking Attendance and Engagement with the WV Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

Bridging Innovation Week, the premier entrepreneurship event in West Virginia, recently concluded with resounding success. The event, which took place from April 17th to April 20th, 2023 at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, West Virginia, attracted a record-breaking number of attendees and received overwhelmingly positive feedback from all involved. “This week really...

April 27, 2023By Mark BurdetteEntrepreneurial Ecosystem, UncategorizedRead more...

1863nft Leads the Mountain State into the Web3 Revolution!

Thanks to the combined efforts of four '90s era West Virginia Wesleyan College classmates and five pioneering West Virginia-based artists, the great State of West Virginia has the distinction of being home to the world's very first state-themed NFT project! Titled 1863nft (for obvious reasons!), the project is comprised of 304...

April 11, 2023By Mark BurdetteEntrepreneurs in Action, Innovation-Led, Supporting Small Business, Uncategorizedentrepreneurs, nft, social entrepreneurship, web3Read more...

West Virginia Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Update January 2022

Spotlight Program for January: National Entrepreneurship Week 2022-February 12-19, 2022 Amber Ravenscroft, The EdVenture Group [email protected] National Entrepreneurship Week is a non-partisan, congressionally chartered initiative founded in 2006 that takes place the third week of February annually. Every year, NatlEshipWeek hosts a series of planned events and helps cross promote partner events...

January 12, 2022By Bill WoodrumEntrepreneurial Ecosystem, UncategorizedBridging Innovation, ecosystem builder, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship ecosystem, NatlEshipWeek, Tara St. Clair, The EdVenture Group, WV Women's Business CenterRead more...

West Virginia BusinessLink and 3 Steps to Startup Team up for West Virginia Business Success

The business growth that West Virginia has experienced just in the past three years has been spectacular. Following 2018, each year has shown an almost 50% increase in business registrations in the Mountain State. Statistics show 4,345 new business formations from 2010 to 2020, and we expect that once the...

January 3, 2022By Bill WoodrumBusiness Growth, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Uncategorized3 Steps to Start Up, business help, business registrations, growth, Innova, JIT, Jobs Investment Trust, TechConnect WV, WV, WV BusinessLink, WV JIT, WV Secretary of StateRead more...

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,...

October 1, 2021By Tyler BrandstetterAdvancing Entrepreneurship, Innovation-Led, Microenterprises, Startup, Uncategorizedmarketing, microenterprise, product development, Small Business, starting a business, startup, tools, tools for entrepreneursRead more...