Burlington's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

This page documents an attempt to understand Burlington's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem primarily through engagement, rather than through data analysis or other means.

As a part of the Kauffman project, students explored Ecosystem: Burlington VT by searching the web. They found most of the major entrepreneurship related things, including:

• The Office of the Vice President of Research at the University of Vermont
• BTVIgnite
• LaunchVT
• Generator
• Intervale Center
• Flynndog
• HackVT
• Road Pitch
• Build Your Own Business (BYOBiz) at Champlain College
• FreshTracks Capital
• Vermont Works
• VENTURE.co
• Karma Bird House (coworking space)
• Office Squared (coworking space)
• Study Hall (coworking space)
• Vermont Technology Council
• Vermont Small Business Development Center based in Randolph Center,VT.

Meetings

5th March 2019, Call with Dean Sharma. Sanjay cancelled. Spoke with Eric Monsen. He is the sole entrepreneurship faculty member.

12th March 2019. Spoke with Sanjay Sharma. This led to a meeting with Chuck Schnitzlein on the 19th March and Barb Arel on the 5th April.

12th April 2019. Presented to the UVM Entrepreneurship Forum, organized by Dan Harvey (Dan.Harvey@uvm.edu) who works for the OVPR under Richard Galbraith.

21st May 2019. Spent the day in meetings including:

• Cairn Cross, FreshTracks Capital
• Dave Bradbury, VCET
• Madeline Brumberg, Vermont Innovation Commons
• Chris Thompson, Generator, who introduced me to Michael Metz (his chairman).

10th June 2019: Michael Metz. Enjoyed it so much that I went back with Lauren and did it all again on June 18th. Michael introduced me to Chelsea Lewis (VCF).

12th July 2019: Chelsea Lewis of Vermont Community Foundation.

Other threads

The following aren't strictly meetings about entrepreneurship in Burlington/VT but are lead generating:

• David Siegel