Edward Lowe Foundation Mark Lange Executive Director

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Edward Lowe FoundationMark Lange - Executive
Director

• Entrepreneurs - Our view
• Influencing Economic Development
• Economic Gardening
• Business Stage Clusters
• Second Stage Entrepreneurs

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Entrepreneurs

• Definition - Pursuit of opportunity without
  regard to the resources currently available
• Innovation and tenacity
• Entrepreneurship and Sex
• Focus on early stage

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Objectives

• Move communities toward entrepreneurial cultures
  (economic development)
• Economic Gardening
• Business stage clusters
• Second stage entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneur support organizations

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Hunting and Gardening

• Recruitment
• Retention
• Dominant
• Strategy
• About
• Movement

Expansion Creation Gaining Attention About
Growth
Influencing Economic Development Strategies
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A DIFFERENT VIEW

• THE UNKNOWN CLUSTER

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• Second Stage Entrepreneur - Profile
• Growth Issues vs Survival
• Intent to Grow
• Capacity to Grow
• Enterprise Composition
• - Privately Held Businesses
• - 10-99 Employees
• - Revenue 1 Million plus

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Entrepreneur Support Organization (ESO)

• ESOs include organizations, entities and
  individuals that directly affect entrepreneurs
  and/or the culture and infrastructure in which
  they do business.

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Contact Information

• mark_at_lowe.org
• www.edwardlowe.org
• www.youreconomy.org
• Mark Lange
• Phone - 269-445-4221