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Empowering Entrepreneurs At UTC’s Urban Vision Initiative

WUTC

Published March 6, 2023 at 12:45 PM EST

Mike Bradshaw at a session with UVI participants.

The Urban Vision Initiative here at UTC helps entrepreneurs such as Veatrice Conley to develop and grow new businesses in underserved areas of Chattanooga.

Mike Bradshaw - UVI’s director - is the first entrepreneur-in-residence at UTC, and the interim director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, all part of the Gary W. Rollins College of Business.

I spoke with him - and Lynn Chestnutt, executive director of the Chattanooga office of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center.

Our thanks to Madison McCann of the TSBDC for recording and editing this conversation.