Economic Development Success Story
6 October 2000 - 8:00am
The small town of Hastings, Minnesota, has found an economic development savior in a 50-year old "enterprise facilitiator."
Ronald L. Toppin, a soft-spoken, grayhaired 50-year-old who was hired by local leaders three years ago to help would-be entrepreneurs -- many of them business neophytes -- start successful enterprises. He's called an "enterprise facilitator," and very different from and economic development officer.
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Wall St. Journal, September 12, 2000
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