The personal-finance website NerdWallet has ranked Maine as the 11th “most entrepreneurial” state. What are the right ingredients to encourage entrepreneurs and to help them succeed? On the first day of the Maine ‘Start Up and Create’ week, we discuss entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation in the state.
Guests: Don Gooding, host of the television show Greenlight Maine, and was Executive Director of the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development for almost six years. He served as Vice Chair of the Maine Angels for four years, and has taught or spoken about innovation and entrepreneurship at Bates, Colby, SMCC, Thomas, UNE, UMaine and USM.
Charles Lawton, Chief Economist, with Planning Decisions, Inc.
Betsy Peters, business strategist with a focus on creating technologies for human potential. Over the last 20 years, she has launched two businesses in Maine and two outside the state. While living in Maine she raised $21M in capital, grew a health care business from launch to $12M in revenue, and founded a company that was twice recognized as an educational innovator by the White House.
