How can entrepreneurial development be supported better?
• Education, including mentoring programs and programs delivered through training facilities. • Highschool credits for students serving their community, volunteering and participating in community organizations such 4-H or the fire department. • Highschool trades apprenticeship programs, coupled with financial incentives for mentors. • School teaching business management skills. • Change in attitude • More risk-takers in community and government. • Businesses supporting other businesses • Focus on positives • Increase access to seed capital, possibly through non-traditional methods that avoid banks, or by changing investment regulations. • Encourage community lending programs that consider how an idea will benefit the community. • Provide management training for entrepreneurs, including courses on human resources, options trading and foreign currency. • Chambers of Commerce can provide formal support programs that offer practical experience and advice, and inform people of available re
