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RssHaving spent many years of schooling in the midwest, I really felt how it was like to live in a small town America. Entrepreneurial and creative spirit was high but the resources were extremely limited. People often made tough choices to either stay home and take on limited career opportunities or leave for more creative and lucrative ventures elsewhere.
Reading this blogpost by an entreprneur in Fort Wayne Indiana had me thinking about the urgency to act to promote entreprneurship and create local opportunities for youth and aspiring entrepreneurs.
With strong infrastructures that exist in small towns and the only limitation being the size of the market and the proximity from major metropolitan hubs, enterprises can benefit by leveraging on the local talent pool, companies and truly build lasting collaborative opportunities.
I have been actively using resources from small towns for several ventures that I am part of- ranging from website development work we sent to a group of freelancers in small town in Oregon to sending all our video editing work – done by group of freelancers in a small town of Monrovia California.
I understand the rationale for outsourcing to resources internationally – primarilily to meet the economy of scale. But, if small town entrepreneurs make their voices heard through their elected officials as well as through grass roots efforts; and if the government at the Federal level works with entrepreneurs and collectively create policies to give large markets incentives to work with small towns instead of just viewing them as potential consumers, Fort Waynes all across the United States can flourish and take on large projects and create millions of sustainable jobs!
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