Mr. Tim Williamson

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  Tim Williamson: tim@ideavillage.org President/Co-Founder of The Idea Village Tim brings his energy and leadership experiences from founding four entrepreneurial ventures in the last 15 years. Since 2000, Tim focused on founding and leading The Idea Village, one of the most innovative economic development organizations in New Orleans. Tim's career began as Vice President with Bear Stearns in Boston and he received a BSM in Finance from Tulane University. Tim serves on the State of Louisiana Small Business and Entrepreneurship Commission, Kingsley House, a graduate of the 2004 NORLI class, graduate of Loyola's Institute of Politics, 1999 City Business Power Generation, 2004 Gambit 40 under 40, and 2004 Junior Achievement Rising Star Award.

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  The winners were given grant certificates by Tim Williamson, president of The Idea Village, an organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship that had provided $20,000.

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  Local Knowledge: Case Study- Tim WilliamsonThe Idea Village
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  Local Knowledge: Case Study- Tim Williamson - Mercatus Center, Jul 30th, 2008Attracting Young Professionals To N.O. Is One Thing, Retaining Them Is Another - The Times Picayune, Jul 24th, 2008
  
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  Tim Williamson, President, The Idea Village

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  Local Knowledge: Case Study- Tim WilliamsonThe Idea Village
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  Local Knowledge: Case Study- Tim Williamson - Mercatus Center, Jul 30th, 2008Attracting Young Professionals To N.O. Is One Thing, Retaining Them Is Another - The Times Picayune, Jul 24th, 2008Adventure Calls Workers to New Orleans - USA Today, Jul 23rd, 2008

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  "The storm put what we already knew into a sharper focus--entrepreneurs are critical to rebuilding a strong community and a catalyst to revitalizing New Orleans," says Tim Williamson, one of the six entrepreneurs highlighted in case studies in Local Knowledge."New Orleans has become a laboratory.In three years we have seen real work and real data and we are creating scalable solutions to problems that are around the country and around the world."Williamson is president of The Idea Village, an independent non-profit in New Orleans that works with entrepreneurs who have been rebuilding their businesses and communities."The most successful rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast are the ones that have come from the bottom up," says Rothschild, "The challenge for our next leaders will be to craft policies that acknowledge the fact that top down solutions do not work and that local knowledge is critical to rebuilding the Gulf Coast."Rothschild and Williamson will attend both the Democratic and Republican conventions to remind policy makers that there is still a great deal of work to be done in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast and that policy makers can learn what works in recovery by following the lead of the entrepreneurs.

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  "To have a vibrant entrepreneurial community, you have to have a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem, a network," said Tim Williamson, president of the Idea Village, a New Orleans group that nurtures entrepreneurial ventures.
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  "The entrepreneurial community is starting to come together and now is the time for the public, private and university resources to come together and really grow this," Williamson said.

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  Tim Williamson, President, Idea Village, New Orleans, LA

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  "What drives economic growth is talent," said Tim Williamson, Idea Village president.
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  Williamson sees the impact they can make on business and is advising his peers to recruit and hire them.
  
  "Because not only are they smarter, brighter and their networks are bigger, but they really energize your organization and make you think differently," he said.

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  "The challenge we're putting on the table is come up with an innovative way to retain them," said Tim Williamson, president of the Idea Village.
  
  Williamson has said that the first step in the process of retention is building an infrastructure that spans higher education, government and the private sector, and is aware of and friendly to the needs of young professionals and entrepreneurs.The in-kind services being offered to the winner by nearly a dozen local agencies, including law firms and advertising agencies, are proof that the network is forming, he said.
  
  "I think it says that we have the foundation to build a vibrant entrepreneurial community," Williamson said.

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