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
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
‘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
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
Meet the 30+ leaders bringing company-building lessons at Technical.ly’s Introduced conference
These entrepreneurs and HR pros shared a hybrid stage for the May 12 event during the 12th annual Philly Tech Week presented by Comcast.
Technical.ly
Small purchases can energize entrepreneurship in Arkansas
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us how vital and vulnerable America’s small businesses are. But, fortunately, small changes in how and where we buy goods can energize entrepreneurship throughout Arkansas – and the nation.
Talk Business & Politics
UNM, city join to spur NM entrepreneurship
The University of New Mexico and the City of Albuquerque are partnering on a new “Right to Start” initiative to help boost entrepreneurship among local communities.
Albuquerque Journal
Miami should set the pace nationally for diversifying access to capital
While Miami has become a global center for entrepreneurship, access to capital remains a looming hurdle for small businesses and minority tech founders.
Refresh Miami
Give small businesses a break in paying startup costs
As America slowly emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses deserve special attention.
Talk Business & Politics
UNM Rainforest InnovationsArticle: Right to Start initiative to support entrepreneurship and growth in New Mexico
UNM Rainforest Innovations and the City of Albuquerque Economic Development Department are jointly financing the Right to Start movement which is a campaign to rebuild the American economy by making entrepreneurial opportunity a top priority in every community.
UNM Rainforest Innovations
First-ever ”Right to Start Act” Would Ban Non-competes, Establish MO Office of Entrepreneurship
Newly filed legislation in Missouri would give a boost to Show-Me State entrepreneurs — or at least spark a robust conversation about how policy can support new business and hiring growth, said Travis Fitzwater.
Startland News
Local: New Entrepreneur Advocacy Group Marries Heavy Hitters with Grassroots Activism
Looking to accelerate and amplify the plight of America’s entrepreneurs is the goal of Kansas City-based Right to Start. The non-profit, which recently established operations in Arkansas, seeks to bring issues facing entrepreneurs top-of-mind among legislators and other community stakeholders.
Daily Record
A Small-Business Agenda for New York’s Next Mayor
Entrepreneurship is a crucial route to opportunity, particularly for historically marginalized communities. Small business is an engine of growth and renewal that will be all the more vital after the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Manhattan Institute