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.
![Lynn Chestnutt](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a59f214/2147483647/strip/true/crop/347x345+0+0/resize/880x875!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9e%2F6b%2F1e96772549f19910685fc7aa6fda%2Flynn-chestnutt.jpg)
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Our thanks to Madison McCann of the TSBDC for recording and editing this conversation.