>Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno hails role of small businesses in being jobs generators at Jersey City kickoff of Global Entrepreneurship Week
The state is counting on budding entrepreneurs to help officials reduce unemployment rates, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno told roughly 80 business people yesterday as the fourth annual Global Entrepreneurship Week kicked off at Jersey City City Hall.
“So long as we continue to collaborate like this . . . I am certain we will be able to put all of our people back to work,” Guadagno said.
“I am absolutely positive that over the next several years we will be able to outpace our neighbors in job growth and job creation.”
Yesterday’s “Start Something New Jersey” event kicked off a week of a activities organized by the Jersey City-based nonprofit Rising Tide Capital and its corporate and community partners. (Hack, The Jersey Journal)