Like an Eagle in flight honed in on din­ner on the ground, you have iden­ti­fied a gap in the world. You know what’s miss­ing and you have the exe­cu­tion plan all plot­ted out in your mind. You have the next big prod­uct, ser­vice or social inno­va­tion… My advice?

If you live in North­east­ern Penn­syl­va­nia, affec­tion­ately known as NEPA, and you dream of being an entre­pre­neur, I chal­lenge you to stop think­ing of all the rea­sons you can’t turn your dreams into real­ity and find out how you can, July 30 — August 1, at NEPA StartUp Scram­ble, at the Uni­ver­sity of Scran­ton, Kania School of Management.

We are very for­tu­nate to have a region with an ingrained, devel­oped and encour­aged entre­pre­neur­ial cul­ture. Key­stone Edge has fea­tured the region sev­eral times in recent years, and even sug­gested we are a mini “sil­i­con”. The NEPA StartUp Scram­ble pro­vides a wel­come addi­tional plat­form to pitch and launch entre­pre­neur­ial ideas.

For the invest­ment in your­self of $75 for a week­end of col­lab­o­ra­tion, can­did coach­ing and tools to move your ideas from the dream to pro­posal stage and beyond toward imple­men­ta­tion, if you don’t do this you just don’t want it bad enough.

I’m delighted to have been invited to be a fea­tured guest by Stephen Dou­glass, Chief Impact Offi­cer of Young Impact, along with local and national siz­zling entre­pre­neur­ial super stars. I’ll be there among all the tal­ent talk­ing about the char­ac­ter­is­tics of suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neurs.. Join us to see if you have what it takes!

Sta­ble small busi­nesses are becom­ing the strength of our region. ~ Faith D. Clark