Arkansas group helps small businesses tap into lithium industry [Video]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas-based group called “Startup Junkie” is no stranger to helping entrepreneurs prepare for the future. 

The organization works to empower innovators and aims to make entrepreneurship accessible to everyone. While they’re used to helping others, this time around they have been assisting small businesses in tapping into a big industry.

“We want to make sure that we’re providing awareness and providing all the opportunities for the people in the community,” said Matthew Ward, a Senior Executive Consultant at Startup Junkie.

The Fayetteville-based company is one of fourteen that were chosen for the US Small Business Administration’s regional innovation cluster.

With that help, SBA officials said that Startup Junkie will “support small businesses in leveraging lithium for the clean energy and electric vehicle transition across Northeast Texas, Southern Arkansas, Northern Louisiana, and West Mississippi.”

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