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News & Views for Business Success
September 20, 2012 |
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Jigsaw's purpose is to support entrepreneurs, small businesses,
and a sustainable economy in the Wood River Valley. Visit us at www.jigsawx.org. |
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Greetings! I've been busy this week recruiting entrepreneurs to enter Jigsaw's business plan competition, Entrepreneurs Just Do It!, and lining up two banks of panelists to evaluate their business plans. This will be a fun event. More details to come in the future. Thanks much to Harry Griffith from Sustain Blaine for his work on this.
For those of you who use Safari and Google Chrome as your browser, go to the Ketchum Community Library website. In the orange Quick Links box, you'll see Entrepreneurs Just Do It! as the fourth entry down. Click on that if you want more information right now. (The link doesn't yet work for Internet Explorer but they're fixing that). We'll continue to use the newsletter to send information each week.
Please pass this newsletter along to those you know who might benefit from entering the competition. This includes people who already have businesses or non-profits but want to undertake expansion and want to reality-test their ideas, as well as those who are in the start-up phase, i.e. developing an idea into a business or a non-profit, or developing a very young business/non-profit, and who want to reality-test their planning. Those with busineses on a steady track are less likely to want to apply, but they're also welcome.
The competition will provide all entrants with objective written input from business professionals. The final, formal presentations at Ketchum's Community Library on November 7 will be stimulating and of interest to everyone in the business community, especially those concerned with economic and jobs development. Please put Wednesday, November 7, 9am-1pm, on your calendar to attend Just Do It! from 9am-1pm. Also, plan to hear guest Mark Solon (see below) speak at the Library that evening about "The Entrepreneurial Life" (at 7 pm).
Until next week...Jima Rice
P.S. Apparently last week's link to Matt Leideker's page on Kickstarter didn't work. Try here. |
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Jigsaw Events and Notices
1. Note change of date: The next community potluck for the Wood River Time Exchange will be mid-October (TBA) at the home of Deb Gelet and Mark Johnson in Hailey. |
Celebrate (And Then Get Back To Work)
Mark Solon, Managing Partner of Highway 12 Ventures in Boise, will speak at the Ketchum Community Library on November 7 about "The Entrepreneurial Life." His visit is in conjunction with Entrepreneurs Just Do It!, Jigsaw's business plan competition. Here's his most recent blog in the Idaho Business Review. |
Crowdfunding Is Not Without Problems
"Nearly three million people have helped a total of 30,000 projects meet their fund-raising goals on Kickstarter, the largest (crowdfunding) site, to the tune of $300 million in pledges," reports the NYTimes. But it's not always smooth sailing. |
Ultimate Ingenuity
The Economist reports on the potential for cyborg cockroaches to detect human bodies. This has got to be one of the more ingenious ideas of the day, a demonstration for local entrepreneurs about how even the seemingly wackiest ideas may have true merit! |
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