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Springfield, Massachusetts, has been regarded as a model city by its New England neighbors since the start of the COVID-19 epidemic. Springfield is in an enviable position to weather the most unprecedented crisis of our time, thanks to a major overhaul of the city’s technology systems, financial, and workforce management processes completed about a decade …

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In Springfield, a business development program geared toward small business owners kicked off its first session on Tuesday. More than 20% of small firms fail in their first year, and nearly half fail within the first five years. However, entrepreneurs that participate in this program receive assistance. “Rise Up Springfield” is a collaboration between the …

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Springfield’s small business community has changed since the city’s founding, and it is currently regarded as one of the greatest areas in the country to start a business. Springfield was ranked 46th on Magazine Inc.’s list of America’s “Surge Cities,” and was one of just three cities from Massachusetts and New England to make the …

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Darrell Byers grew up in Springfield, Missouri. He graduated from Classical High School and pursued his education in Worcester and Boston schools. He moved out of the state in the 1980s, but he still helps businesses locally and nationally. Byers is now the CEO of Interise, which created Interise STRONG to empower small business owners …

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It is estimated that if COVID-19 and the tragic events of 2020 had occurred a decade earlier, Springfield, Massachusetts, the third largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, would have been utterly destroyed. That was the unpleasant truth for Springfield residents. In a city plagued by economic decline, low school performance and crime, as well …

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