GRAND RAPIDS – Corey Hart returned to Grand Rapids last September to find that support for entrepreneurship and startup companies had grown well beyond what it was when he left for California a decade earlier.
The Forest Hills native and serial entrepreneur now wants to help move the local entrepreneurial ecosystem forward even more with the formation of a Grand Rapids chapter of Startup Grind, a “global community of entrepreneurs” that has more than 600 chapters in 125 countries worldwide consisting of 2 million entrepreneurs.
In bringing Startup Grind to Grand Rapids, Hart wants to fill what he sees as gaps that remain in the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, despite all of the progress over the years.
“Things have incredibly improved. The number of resources out there are leaps and bounds from when I was starting out,” said Hart, who cites organizations such as Start Garden and SpringGR, a mentoring and networking organization for entrepreneurs, that have formed in Grand Rapids over the last decade.
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