How do you get the attention of the people who are not paying attention to all the awesome stuff you’re doing to help them? How do you get them to take action to do something with the great ideas they’re sitting on? How do you help them turn those great ideas into great businesses in your rural community?
In this workshop, Andrew Button, Founder & CEO of Mashup Lab, will share some of the practical strategies they have used to get 800+ entrepreneurs in 300+ communities “off the sidelines” to start and grow 400+ businesses in just the last three years… well over 80% of whom had never signed up for a business or entrepreneurship program before, despite having dozens of things available to them right in their backyard.
Andrew Button, Founder & CEO of Mashup Lab
www.linkedin.com/in/abutton/
After a 15-year career working in rural North America with various businesses and economic development organizations, Andrew founded Mashup Lab, a for-more-than-profit company focused on one thing: unleashing the entrepreneurial potential of rural places. Mashup Lab’s activities fall under two business units; virtual business incubation programming, and a network of rural co-working spaces that operate under the brand WorkEvolved.
In just the past three years, Mashup Lab has successfully scaled its Virtual Business Incubator to rural regions throughout Canada and the United States, working with more than 500 aspiring entrepreneurs in 300 different rural communities to start and grow over 400 businesses.
Andrew is also co-founder of Awesome South Shore, a community-backed micro-fund that has given away over $80,000 in no-strings-attached cash to people that want to do something awesome in their community. Andrew holds an MBA from Saint Mary’s University and a BBA from Acadia University. Most recently he was selected into the Wallace McCain Institute’s Entrepreneurial Leaders Program as one of the Top 30 high-growth potential entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada.
Andrew is from a small rural community in Newfoundland, and married a girl from a small rural community in Nova Scotia that they now call home with their two boys.
