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Empowering Entrepreneurs At UTC’s Urban Vision Initiative

Mike Bradshaw at a session with UVI participants.
Angela Foster
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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.

Lynn Chestnutt
TSBDC
Lynn Chestnutt

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

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