Entrepreneurship and Innovation Contract Monthly Update July 1, 2019

We served 59 Fayetteville entrepreneurs through 51 1:1 high quality free consulting, mentoring, counseling, training, support, and assistance engagements 15 minority owned venture through 1:1 these engagements 9 women owned ventures through these 1:1 engagements 1 veteran owned ventures through these 1:1 engagements Companies like Savoy Tea, based here, and expanding nationally at a rapid rate 6 Events, Workshop, and Program engagements for Fayetteville entrepreneurs serving nearly 150 attendees Monthly Metrics:

Monthly Progress Narrative: Packed Venture MashUp held at CenterSpace on the Fayetteville square. We hosted the Venture Center’s FinTech Accelerator companies Extremely successful week long E-Teen Ventures held at CenterSpace on Fayetteville square Continued work with two new and very exciting collaboration space’s planned for Fayetteville, Anchori2i and LikeWise. We will continue assisting them with their launch plans Worked with Congressman Womack and Congressman French Hill’s office on continued renewal of the Small Business Administration’s Regional Innovation Cluster program, a program based in Fayetteville that greatly benefit’s Fayetteville entrepreneurs. Content continued to be gathered on Fayetteville Venture Highlights Continued work on the Spectrum Living Solutions project Monthly Progress Narrative: