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Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Entrepreneurial League System

The Entrepreneurial League System

It’s all about building relationships.

Building a place for creative entrepreneurial people to live and work is part of the story.  Helping them build truly meaningful relationships to succeed individually and as a community is just as important, and what the Entrepreneurial League System® (ELS) provides.

Known as the branded version of the entrepreneurial development system described yesterday, the ELA provides these key services:

The Talent Scout identifies and recruits the entrepreneurs

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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Minor leagues

Entrepreneurs can learn a lot from minor league baseball

Cool towns focus on job growth through home-grown companies.  Thankfully, that’s become a nationwide business trend called economic gardening.  However, how does one implement economic gardening?

Look no further than professional baseball.  Major league baseball develops the talent in its players through a farm system with four skills levels.  Players with the most undeveloped skills begin in the “Rookie” league, gradually advancing from A, to AA, to AAA before ultimately reaching the …

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