'They don't have to move to Boston or Austin or New York': Valley Venture Mentors graduates making it in Western Massachusetts - masslive.com -Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council

'They don't have to move to Boston or Austin or New York': Valley Venture Mentors graduates making it in Western Massachusetts

masslive.com Aug 17 2017 Entrepreneurship

Their enterprise was one of several winners of grants, ranging from $700 to $6,000, awarded at Wednesday night's Valley Venture Mentors Collegiate Accelerator Graduation at Tower Square. The grants totaling $25,000 help graduates establish their businesses. Valley Venture Mentors is a Springfield-based nonprofit supporting entrepreneurs in Western Massachusetts. Twenty students from nine area colleges graduated Wednesday.
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