Listeners looking to learn how to build and survive launching your rural tech hub will relate to our latest guest, Abby Salomon's story. The central Vermont town of Randolph, host to her organization known as Cultivator is also a resilient community in a truly resilient state. We talked about the challenge to reinventing funding in the current climate of 2025 for such projects, the importance of mentorship to the programming offered and the real challenge of servicing a wide spectrum of small business while still working to build a new cluster of tech oriented, well-paying companies.

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