The Top 10 Things That Define an Urban Entrepreneur
The term “urban entrepreneur” has two principal connotations: someone who starts with no resources and builds a company or brand into a success; and someone who uses the perfect blend of book and street smarts to run their business well.
To help me determine the true characteristics of today’s urban entrepreneur, though, I decided to go straight to the source: 100UrbanEntrepreneurs.org, a nonprofit foundation that, along with its sister organization, TheCASHFLOW.com, offers talented urban entrepreneurs — of whom, I humbly note, I am one — $10,000 in strings-free startup financing and eight weeks of business mentoring. Here’s what some of 100UE’s funding-and-mentoring recipients had to say.
How 3 Startups Are Improving Urban Life Through Tech
From revolutionizing the way people experience their cities to empowering citizens to voice their concerns about their neighborhoods, the Global Innovation Series startup contestants proved their companies can improve urban life through tech innovation.
We’re pleased to announce the three winners for the Global Innovation Series startup contest. These winners will present onstage at the Global Innovation Series on July 16, 2012 in Berlin.
Making sense of urban entrepreneurialism
David Harvey’s 1989 article, ‘From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: the transformation of urban governance’, has very quickly become a ‘citation classic’. This article provides a brief summary of Harvey’s argument focusing on the distinguishing characteristics of urban entrepreneurialism, the strategies undertaken by governing coalitions and the importance of inter‐urban competition to the entrepreneurial thesis.
