Metro Milwaukee ranks poorly for entrepreneurial activity

While some community leaders consistently try to dispute the methodologies researchers use to evaluate a region’s entrepreneurial activity, Milwaukee consistently ranks poorly no matter which method is used. We have to stop trying to rationalize Milwaukee’s poor performance and address reality head-on. Whether you look at Kauffman Foundation’s, Startup Activity Index, Growth Entrepreneurship Index or the Economic Innovation Group’s distressed communities report. Milwaukee’s business community needs to get serious about startups or risk not being competitive in the 21st century economy.

By: Matt Cordio, Milwaukee Business News

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Distressed Communities Index (DCI) 

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