As we enter autumn and prepare for the final quarter of the year, it’s a great time to assess and reassess your business strategies to ensure that the final 90 days of 2009 effectively prepare you for a strong start to the New Year. To assist in this effort, JumpStart, in collaboration with its local and national partners, will be putting on a groundbreaking event on Thursday, December 3rd designed to stimulate your strategic thinking around growing and supporting high growth minority, inner city and women-owned businesses by facilitating access to “Angel” and Venture Capital.
This continues to be an underutilized asset for both our region and the nation, and further represents one of the critical components to building and sustaining a healthy economy. The event will begin Thursday, December 3rd with a full day of power packed activities featuring a host of diverse entrepreneurs and stakeholders that have achieved extraordinary levels of success through high growth entrepreneurship, and will conclude Friday morning, December 4th with yet another intensive session that I am honored to facilitate. As part of the activities on December 3rd, JumpStart will also be selecting certain of its clients to present to a panel of regional and national investors who will be in town specifically looking to invest in some of the region’s most promising early-stage diverse businesses.
More information will soon be available via JumpStart, so please stay tuned (sign up for our email newsletter to hear the latest) and be sure to reserve those dates on your calendar in the meantime.
Darrin is Chief Economic Inclusion Officer of JumpStart and President of JumpStart Inclusion Advisors. He founded and ran his own strategic planning and management assistance firm and spent 16 years in the commercial banking and finance industry. Darrin has an MBA from Baldwin Wallace College and an undergraduate degree from Mount Union College. He has led a series of workshops and seminars on matters of economic development and diversity.