Reducing Barriers to Entrepreneurship

Gerard Peregrin

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  University participation in Regional Economic Clusters

  The EDA has released a request for proposal for a grant that encourages regional competitiveness by the formation of business clusters designed to create new businesses and therefore jobs. Let's encourage professors of public universities to participate in clusters. In exchange for their participation they could qualify for tenure benefits or stock options. Eliminate their demand for direct hourly compensation since ...more »

  The EDA has released a request for proposal for a grant that encourages regional competitiveness by the formation of business clusters designed to create new businesses and therefore jobs. Let's encourage professors of public universities to participate in clusters. In exchange for their participation they could qualify for tenure benefits or stock options. Eliminate their demand for direct hourly compensation since they are already compensated with public debt funds.

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  Workfare

  Why not use the $850 million dollars of unemployment funds that the Department of Labor has just released to California as workfare to help start and grow new businesses - as described in the National Strategy for New Business and Job Creation. http://bit.ly/h7iIEI

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  SBA supported Incubators

  Consider distributing early stage startup grant funds directly to qualified entrepreneurs and encourage them to purchase the support support services that they may need from business and technical professionals. Get the incubators out of the training business and encourage them to provide hands on work in support of the entrepreneurs who are attempting to create business and jobs. Do the same thing for SCORE. Get SCORE ...more »

  Consider distributing early stage startup grant funds directly to qualified entrepreneurs and encourage them to purchase the support support services that they may need from business and technical professionals. Get the incubators out of the training business and encourage them to provide hands on work in support of the entrepreneurs who are attempting to create business and jobs. Do the same thing for SCORE. Get SCORE to provide teams that can do real work. Require entrepreneurs or an associate to have a business degree from a college or university before distributing grants.

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  National Network of Incubators for New Business & Job Creation

  Encourage all Business Incubator organizations, such as www.nbia.org, that receive federal dollars from the EDA, SBA, DOC, & NIST to join with startupamerica and the SBA to establish one web site that links all national resources that are established for new business & job creation initiatives into a collaborative and unified national resource for innovation, entrepreneurship, business development, and job creation in ...more »

  Encourage all Business Incubator organizations, such as www.nbia.org, that receive federal dollars from the EDA, SBA, DOC, & NIST to join with startupamerica and the SBA to establish one web site that links all national resources that are established for new business & job creation initiatives into a collaborative and unified national resource for innovation, entrepreneurship, business development, and job creation in every county of the U.S.

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  Public Resources for New Business Development & Job Creation

  Consider re-organizing all federal and public assets dedicated to new business development and job creation into a single agency. Avoid redundancy between EDA and SBA. For example, EDA recently announced its new web site for business development and job creation. http://www.eda.gov/NewsEvents/PressReleases/20110511_Albuquerque_RIAN

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  Venture Labor Tax Incentives

  Encourage venture labor investments in early stage startup businesses that are operating within a non-profit organization that is established to facilitate new business development initiatives. Employed, displaced and retired professionals who may be interested in a particular early stage startup business could invest their time, not their money, on a part time basis in an early stage startup business. Venture labor ...more »

  Encourage venture labor investments in early stage startup businesses that are operating within a non-profit organization that is established to facilitate new business development initiatives.

  Employed, displaced and retired professionals who may be interested in a particular early stage startup business could invest their time, not their money, on a part time basis in an early stage startup business. Venture labor investing should become an alternative to venture capital investing. There is no risk to capital! Venture labor investors could receive annual tax incentives if their labor is invested on a part time basis in an early stage startup business. Include provisions in a law or regulation that would allow venture labor investors to receive an equity stake in the future enterprise even though they would have received an income tax deduction for their invested labor. Perhaps this strategy would encourage professionals to become stakeholders in early stage startup businesses at least for the tax deduction and with the future expectation that they could receive a financial return based on their accumulated equity in the startup business. Encourage the early stage startup business to simply register their activities with the IRS, FBI and/or the SEC to account for venture labor investments.

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  Secure Patentability Rights even after Publication

  Secure patentability rights while allowing publication and commercialization of claims and trade secrets prior to submitting a patent application. Use the provisonal patent application database as a trade secret database [e.g., a Trade Secret Bank] that is searchable by a community of qualified members of the Bank who demonstrate that they will not use the information in the Bank for any purpose except to enter into ...more »

  Secure patentability rights while allowing publication and commercialization of claims and trade secrets prior to submitting a patent application.

  Use the provisonal patent application database as a trade secret database [e.g., a Trade Secret Bank] that is searchable by a community of qualified members of the Bank who demonstrate that they will not use the information in the Bank for any purpose except to enter into license or purchase arrangements with the provisional patent applicant. In addition, use the information in the Bank as prior art and allow the provisional patent applicant to maintain patentability rights as long as every reasonable effort is exercised to commercialize the claims or trade secrets that are contained in the applicant's application. Allow the applicant to publish original claims or trade secrets contained in the provisional patent application without loosing patentability rights for as long as the applicant engages in reasonable efforts to commercialize the claims or trade secrets contained in the provisional patent application. Encourage the provisional patent applicant to proceed to the patent application process after sufficient funds have been raised from commercialization activities.

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  National Identity Authentication

  Accelerate the implementation of a voluntary national identity authentication system.

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  National New Business & Job Creation Network

  Consolidate all the best ideas as well as all the orgnanizations who are engaged in economic development across the country into a single national network of collaborators who are all linked together by a single web site that is establish as the national eco-system for entrepreneurship and innovation.

  See http://bit.ly/h7iIEI

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  National New Business & Job Creation Network

  Read the brief slide presentation located at http://bit.ly/h7iIEI. It describes a National New Business & Job Creation Network.

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  National New Business & Job Creation Network

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