What’s Cooking? How Shared Kitchens Can Boost Local Entrepreneurship
There is a shortage of shared food facilities nationwide. Addressing that need is vital to new-business growth, and local governments have a major role to play.
Governing
How Design Thinking Can Help Lower the Poverty Rate
West Virginia has one of the five highest poverty rates in the nation and among the four highest rates of household hunger. But there's a new spark of hope, as one of its native sons - a former Fortune 500 CEO in Silicon Valley - has returned and introduced design thinking as a way to solve tough problems.
Inc. Magazine
The State of American Entrepreneurship is Strong
Victor Hwang’s road trip through America's Heartland reveals entrepreneurial optimism.
Inc. Magazine
A New Study Shows a Strong Belief in Entrepreneurship Among Most Americans
Amid political polarization intensified by the coming midterm elections, a new bipartisan survey of American voters reveals a surprising unity.
Inc. Magazine
More Americans Are Embracing Entrepreneurship
During the pandemic, business starts surged. New data adds more to the story.
Times of Entrepreneurship
Building New Mexico's tech ecosystem: One-on-one with Elizabeth Kuuttila of UNM Rainforest Innovations
“The city of Albuquerque and Rainforest Innovations are partners with Right to Start … [that will] culminate in a summit this fall... We're going to be making some recommendations to the Legislature about simple things that could be done.” Photo Credit: UNM Rainforest Innovations
New Mexico Inno
Nashville entrepreneurship program to graduate 150 students
Corner to Corner, a local faith-based nonprofit organization, has announced that 150 students are graduating Tuesday from The Academy, a 10-week entrepreneurship training program. The organization helps entrepreneurs plan, start and grow their businesses by teaching them different skills. Photo Credit: Nashville Post
NashvillePost
'Amazing': The Academy entrepreneur program hosts largest graduation yet in Nashville
The Academy, an entrepreneur program designed to benefit low-income communities, held its largest graduation yet on Tuesday with 150 graduates. Photo Credit: Logan Washburn
The Tennessean
Make the process of starting a business less paralyzing
Right to Start Advocates Irma Chavez and Daymara Baker highlighted progress by the City of Fayetteville towards removing regulatory barriers for local entrepreneurs, then outlined three steps that all communities can take towards similar progress.
Talk Business & Politics
University students win big at the 2022 Pitch Deck Competition
After an inspiring evening at the Lobo Rainforest Building, five university students went home with cash prizes after pitching their innovative business and startup ideas to an audience of supporters, investors, and business community.
University of New Mexico
ABQ can make farmers markets dynamic pipelines for small business
Farmers’ markets offer spectacular food and other local products, and they provide an extraordinary vehicle for promoting new business growth. That latter role is often overlooked when it should be more highly prized by local policymakers.
Albuquerque Journal
Opening a Restaurant in Boston Takes 92 Steps, 22 Forms, 17 Office Visits, and $5,554 in 12 Fees. Why?
It's nearly just as bad in San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, and many other U.S. cities. The time is now to remove needless barriers to the American Dream. Photo Credit: Getty Images
Inc. Magazine
Will the startup revival last?
Entrepreneurship has boomed after decades of decline. Culture has shifted, but we can’t squander the moment.
Technical.ly
Technical.ly CEO Interviews Victor Hwang: Will the Startup Revival Last?
Right to Start CEO Victor Hwang speaks with Technical.ly CEO Chris Wink.
Technical.ly
Right to Start COO Kim Lane: “It's time we live up to the original promise of America.”
Right to Start's COO Kim Lane talked with Doug Erwin, host of the nationally syndicated Growth Pioneers podcast, about the realities facing entrepreneurs at the local and national levels.
Growth Pioneers Podcast
‘We need everyone on the field’: Shevrin Jones stresses urgency ahead of re-election campaign launch
Atop [Jones’] list of legislative priorities is the “Florida Right to Start Act.” The measure, which Jones sponsored during the last Legislative Session, would enable small businesses to forgo some of the fees they’d otherwise have to pay while competing for government contracts.
Florida Politics
Groups back omnibus business legislation
A wide-ranging business bill would help level the playing field …[and] include the Right-To-Start Act requiring the commissioner of Administration to file reports on contracts and resources for Missouri businesses that have been in operation for less than three years.
News Tribune
Missouri House considers incentives for entrepreneurs, small businesses
Known as the Right to Start Act, the bill would reduce the first $100,000 of any remaining income tax for limited liability companies (LLCs) by 20 percent the first three years the business is in operation. Corporations would receive a 1 percent incentive up to $100,000 for their first three years.
News Tribune
14 states that make it easier to launch your business
If you're considering starting a business, like the 5.4 million Americans who did last year, the ease of the process varies depending on where you live.
Business Insider
Inside a Community-Driven Campaign to Unleash Entrepreneurial Opportunity
In Northwest Arkansas, Right to Start amplifies the voices of underserved entrepreneurs and helps remove barriers to their success.
Walton Family Foundation