business oregon, janet soto: entrepreneurship strategy
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Janet Soto RodriguezEntrepreneurship Strategist Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Imagine...
…that every entrepreneur has access to high-quality resources, tools, mentoring, and capital to launch, grow, and scale a viable business, no matter where they live or who they are.
Inefficient network
Invisible services Insufficient resources Unequal access system
Barriers
entrepreneurship
innovation
capital
• STEAM/CTE• University tech transfer• Federal grants (SBIR/STTR)• Prototype support
• Incubators and accelerators• Small Business Development
Centers• Economic Development Districts• Mentors and coaches
• Oregon Growth Board• Angel investors and seed funds• Venture capitalists and
conferences• Community capital
Business Oregon I&E
2 31Strategies
Make non-local resources accessible
Serve all stages of
business from startup to scale
Gather and make local resources
visible
The rural entrepreneurship initiative
Phase One
La Grande
Baker City
Klamath Falls
Coos Bay
Janet Soto [email protected] Strategist Innovation & Entrepreneurship
98%
2%
100 Employees
89%
11%
20 Employees
82%
18%
9 Employees
Oregon Companies by employment
9 Employees or Less82%
10 Employees or More18%
Oregon CompaniesBy Employment
101,000 companies with under 9 employees106,860 individuals unemployed today Imagine if each small firm hired one more person…