reSET’s Accelerator Cohort is About to Take Flight!

ewalsh • May 22, 2014

Creating a vibrant and robust entrepreneurial ecosystem has been a focus of Connecticut’s for some time, and within the state there are a variety business accelerators and incubator spaces available to entrepreneurs that are designed to help fulfill their business goals and aspirations. What there are not a lot of are Social Enterprise Accelerators, which are specifically for social entrepreneurs.

That’s where reSET comes in, located on Pratt Street in Downtown Hartford, reSET’s Social Enterprise Accelerator provides needed business support to social entrepreneurs who are developing solutions to the unmet social and environmental challenges facing the local and global community. The accelerator offers a fifteen week immersion into social enterprise, looking at business structures, marketing, branding, financing, and testing business assumptions, and has a proven track record of helping to further the development of early stage social enterprises, bringing those businesses to the next level.

Throughout the highly customized experience, entrepreneurs receive an action oriented-education that gives access to reSET’s incredibly talented network of business advisors, offers tons of peer networking, and as a bonus, free desk space in downtown Hartford at the reSET Community Coworking space.

Building a business is no easy feat. Those who have already completed reSET’s Accelerator have expressed their gratitude for the transformational skills they have cultivated through mentorship and guidance from other successful impact businesses, and social enterprises, as well as policy experts.

We are experiencing this together, having the only Social Enterprise Accelerator in the state, we get to work with some of the most innovative minds and creative business ideas that are working towards substantial social change on a daily basis. There is a great deal of energy, drive, and dedication coming through the reSET space eager to make a big splash in the social enterprise scene.


On June 18th at the Lyceum in Hartford we hope that you will come meet the next generation of Connecticut social entrepreneurs and watch them take flight during the social enterprise accelerator culminating event, “
Flight Night“, it’s surely an evening to impress!!

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