Building Your Own Entrepreneurial Communities

Hutchinson, Kansas, is an entrepreneur friendly community

Many of you loved the information from Dave Shideler in Building Entrepreneurial Communities. Now you can participate as Shideler presents two webinars on the same subject, plus one on youth entrepreneurship.

These three webinars are presented free by Oklahoma State University Extension Service and Oklahoma’s Rural Enterprises, Inc.:

Building Entrepreneurial Communities Part I: What are they?
This first session will focus on “what communities can do to support, cultivate and enhance entrepreneurship” in your community. Expect to learn a lot about entrepreneurs and what goes into an entrepreneurial climate.

• Community Entrepreneurship Readiness Tool -PDF 
• Building Entrepreneurial Communities Part 1 – Slides PDF
• Building Entrepreneurial Communtities Part 1 – video (downloads as EXE file)

Building Entrepreneurial Communities Part II: How do you build it?
Now that you know more about entrepreneurial climate, what policies can be put in place? Shideler has a long list of policy examples from around Oklahoma. He will also talk about ways to build the entrepreneurial climate and support systems that don’t require policy changes.

• Building Entrepreneurial Communities Part 2 – Slides PDF
• Building Entrepreneurial Communities Part 2 – video  (opens in browser)

Youth Entrepreneurship: Building a pipeline
Want to keep more of your town’s kids engaged and involved in the community? Help them become entrepreneurs. Shideler will also share the 4-H curricula on youth entrepreneurship.

• Youth Entrepreneurship – Slides PDF
• Youth Entrepreneurship – video  (opens in browser)

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About Becky McCray

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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