business oregon, janet soto: entrepreneurship strategy
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Janet Soto RodriguezEntrepreneurship Strategist Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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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.
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Inefficient network
Invisible services Insufficient resources Unequal access system
Barriers
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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
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2 31Strategies
Make non-local resources accessible
Serve all stages of
business from startup to scale
Gather and make local resources
visible
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The rural entrepreneurship initiative
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Phase One
La Grande
Baker City
Klamath Falls
Coos Bay
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Janet Soto [email protected] Strategist Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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98%
2%
100 Employees
89%
11%
20 Employees
82%
18%
9 Employees
Oregon Companies by employment
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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…