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BEYOND COLLISIONS BOOK



LEARN HOW TO BUILD YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL INFRASTRUCTURE




ECOSYSTEM BUILDING TIPS FROM GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADERS

Beyond Collisions: How to Build your Entrepreneurial Infrastructure is the field
guide to building and sustaining entrepreneurship in your community.

With practitioner-tested and actionable steps, this book will help you develop a
deep understanding of what your entrepreneurial community needs and how to
deliberately support your entrepreneurs, beyond one-time programs and organic
collisions.

Beyond Collisions shares what SourceLink and our network of ecosystem builders
have learned about how to build entrepreneurial support networks over the past
20 years, including four actions that communities have used to marshal resources
and help entrepreneurs start, grow and succeed.


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YOU’LL LEARN:

Why you should care about entrepreneurship

What is an entrepreneurial infrastructure

Who are these entrepreneurs that we want to help

The nuts and bolts of what you can do, in your community, to support and
encourage entrepreneurs

Actionable strategies that will help you identify resources that support
entrepreneurs, connect them, empower the network and measure results


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ENTREPRENEUR BENEFITS

Sprinkled throughout this book are stories from the field, firsthand accounts of
building networks, encouraging entrepreneurs and analyzing outcomes.


CORE

We’ll address key questions. Why should you care about entrepreneurs, what is an
entrepreneurial infrastructure and who are these entrepreneurs that we want to
help?


ACTION PLAN

We’ll explain the four steps to building your entrepreneurial infrastructure.
What can you do, in your community, to support and encourage entrepreneurs?
We’ll identify resources that support entrepreneurs, connect them, empower the
network and measure results.


STRATEGIES

Strategies that will help you accomplish the four steps to building your
entrepreneurial infrastructure. We’ll share insights we’ve gained about
marketing, funding and leadership. Learn the jargon of the entrepreneurial
ecosystem with the vocabulary list we wished we had when we started in this
field.

"YOU CAN'T CREATE AN ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMUNITY, THEY CREATE THEMSELVES. YOU CAN
CREATE THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH ENTREPRENEURS CHOOSE TO INNOVATE. YOU CAN WORK
ACROSS GOVERNMENT AND UNIVERSITIES AND PRIVATE-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP LINES TO MAKE
IT EASIER FOR ENTREPRENEURS TO START AND GROW COMPANIES."

- PETER DESILVA,

President, Scottrade, Inc.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


MARIA MEYERS

Maria Meyers, like the organization she leads, is entrepreneurial about
supporting entrepreneurs. As founder of KCSourceLink®, Maria created a network
that connects entrepreneurs with hundreds of business-building organizations
throughout the Kansas City region. She later scaled that network model
nationally as founder of SourceLink℠, creating America’s first R&D platform for
economic developers and e-community champions.

In addition to her SourceLink accomplishments, Maria is executive director for
the University of Missouri–Kansas City Innovation Center, connecting university
researchers with the community to ignite collaborative partnerships leading to
innovations. At UMKC, she was instrumental in the creation of the Institute for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation, establishing entrepreneurship as a mainstream
field of study that now offers BBA, MBA and PhD degree concentrations in
entrepreneurship.




ABOUT THE AUTHOR


KATE POPE HODEL

Kate Pope Hodel has had a front row seat for the entrepreneurial revolution,
joining the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 1991 when it was just beginning
its involvement in entrepreneurship. She directed the Kauffman Foundation’s
efforts to develop a national reputation around entrepreneurship, working with
organizations such as National Public Radio, the national Entrepreneur of the
Year awards and the international board for Young Entrepreneurs Organization.

Pursuing her passion for community entrepreneurship, Kate was the original
program officer for the KCSourceLink founding grant. She went on to work for
KCSourceLink and SourceLink as a consultant and eventually as staff, helping
build networks across the state of Missouri and in select communities
nationwide. Currently Kate works on special projects for KCSourceLink, include
the We Create Capital effort, KCInvestED, Whiteboard2Boardroom and research into
capital access and job creation by early-stage firms. 

“Maria Meyers and Kate Pope Hodel have been colleagues and mentors for years.
They are among America’s true thought leaders in the entrepreneur development
space. Their work with SourceLink and entrepreneurial ecosystem development has
greatly influenced our thinking at the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship. Their
new book Beyond Collisions: How to build your entrepreneurial infrastructure is
a must read. Kate and Maria’s work is research based and field tested. This book
is practical and helpful. Each chapter provides experience, insight and
information you can use to grow a stronger economy and community through
entrepreneur focused development. Get a copy, read it and use it!”
- Don Macke, Founder, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
"The Kauffman Foundation was one of the earliest supporters of SourceLink. We've
been gratified by the success they've had in boosting the entrepreneurial
ecosystem in Kansas City and in communities across the country. This book
demonstrates the value of our investment."
- Wendy Guillies, President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
“This book is a wonderful collection of very useful insights into how to create
an infrastructure that supports entrepreneurship. I especially appreciate its
comprehensive perspective and its pragmatism.”
- Thomas S. Lyons, Ph.D., Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
and Director,
MSU Product Center Food-Ag-Bio, Michigan State University
“Maria Meyers and Kate Pope Hodel have been colleagues and mentors for years.
They are among America’s true thought leaders in the entrepreneur development
space. Their work with SourceLink and entrepreneurial ecosystem development has
greatly influenced our thinking at the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship. Their
new book Beyond Collisions: How to build your entrepreneurial infrastructure is
a must read. Kate and Maria’s work is research based and field tested. This book
is practical and helpful. Each chapter provides experience, insight and
information you can use to grow a stronger economy and community through
entrepreneur focused development. Get a copy, read it and use it!”
- Don Macke, Founder, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
"The Kauffman Foundation was one of the earliest supporters of SourceLink. We've
been gratified by the success they've had in boosting the entrepreneurial
ecosystem in Kansas City and in communities across the country. This book
demonstrates the value of our investment."
- Wendy Guillies, President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
“This book is a wonderful collection of very useful insights into how to create
an infrastructure that supports entrepreneurship. I especially appreciate its
comprehensive perspective and its pragmatism.”
- Thomas S. Lyons, Ph.D., Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
and Director,
MSU Product Center Food-Ag-Bio, Michigan State University
“Maria Meyers and Kate Pope Hodel have been colleagues and mentors for years.
They are among America’s true thought leaders in the entrepreneur development
space. Their work with SourceLink and entrepreneurial ecosystem development has
greatly influenced our thinking at the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship. Their
new book Beyond Collisions: How to build your entrepreneurial infrastructure is
a must read. Kate and Maria’s work is research based and field tested. This book
is practical and helpful. Each chapter provides experience, insight and
information you can use to grow a stronger economy and community through
entrepreneur focused development. Get a copy, read it and use it!”
- Don Macke, Founder, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
"The Kauffman Foundation was one of the earliest supporters of SourceLink. We've
been gratified by the success they've had in boosting the entrepreneurial
ecosystem in Kansas City and in communities across the country. This book
demonstrates the value of our investment."
- Wendy Guillies, President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
“This book is a wonderful collection of very useful insights into how to create
an infrastructure that supports entrepreneurship. I especially appreciate its
comprehensive perspective and its pragmatism.”
- Thomas S. Lyons, Ph.D., Professor of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
and Director,
MSU Product Center Food-Ag-Bio, Michigan State University

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 * Build Your Entrepreneurial Community on Action Now CFO podcast with Greg
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 * Making Entrepreneurship Easier on Entrepreneurially Thinking podcast
   with Christy Maxfield of Center for Emerging Technologies and Cheryl
   Watkins-Moore of BioSTL
 * Do entrepreneurs need more help these days? on The Small Business Advocate
   with Jim Blasingame
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   Jim Blasingame
 * Winning Where You Stand on The Entrepreneur Way with Neil Ball

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