Victor Hwang is our guest for this episode of the Ecosystem Builder Podcast. Victor is an author, investor, entrepreneur, and economic growth expert. He joins the show to discuss the science behind ecosystem building and provides research-backed tactics to apply to communities around the world.

Ecosystem Builder

Governments at all levels should do more to support and sustain new businesses. America's economic recovery from Covid-19 requires a new commitment to entrepreneurship.

Inc. Magazine

Q&A-style interview between Victor Hwang, founder and CEO of the Right to Start movement, and Andrew Yang, former presidential candidate and founder of Venture for America.

Q&A with Andrew Yang: How small business can restart the US economy

Right to Start is creating a movement nationwide. Written by Collin West of VC Research.

Ensemble

America's original DNA is to unleash every individual's power to make, start, and produce. Nick Smoot interviews Victor Hwang and they discuss the American Dream and how to rebuild the American ability to “make”.

Innovation Collective

Prioritizing new businesses will lead to job creation and a faster recovery from Covid-19. Communities need to help.

Bloomberg CityLab

Prioritizing new businesses will lead to job creation and a faster recovery from Covid-19. Communities need to help.

Make Magazine

Makers are fascinating people. They take on multiple identities, based on multiple roles. Their many roles weave a tapestry of interrelationships – as makers combine skills, ideas, and resources to generate dynamic innovation, business activity, and even jobs.

Make Magazine

The Maker Movement — and the knowledge and skills of makers — are key to rebuilding the American economy.

Make Magazine

A new measurement tool has been introduced by researchers at the Mercatus Center for tracking occupational licensing across states. States and occupations with the greatest licensing restrictions also have the weakest wage growth. The data will be useful for policy analysts and researchers alike to benchmark states and advocate for lower barriers.

Forbes

A global 24-hour online event that aims to inspire, educate, and activate people, empowering them to meet the future with optimism. Over 80 speakers will share their stories and tools for how to thrive in an ever-changing world.

Care 24 Global

Makers are amazing hobbyists and hackers, but they are much more than that. Makers are also “starters” who convert ideas into serious economic value. Thus, makers have a huge potential role in America’s economic recovery that is almost never discussed.

Make Magazine

How communities can drive economic development by supporting entrepreneurs.

Startup Space

America’s economic debate has been too narrow, focused primarily on reopening businesses, as if they’re just waiting to turn the lights back on. It’s urgent that we focus more broadly on helping people to start businesses and making that a community priority nationwide.

The Hill

Our unemployment system is still based on an industrial-era model, where society looks to established companies to create needed jobs. We should use unemployment insurance to encourage entrepreneurship.

The New Localism