Programs for Value Chain Leverage

Education and Talent

• Encourage more college bound science and engineering students

Opportunity and Capital

• Venture funding: linking incubators and venture money to start-ups
• Small business development and microlending: focus on internet commerce sectors (encourage  Latino participation as eBay businesses) and women owned businesses through micro-lending

Networks and Access

• Incubate NGO’s for the development of networking, capital and expertise for entrepreneurs through alliances with existing networks for those purposes: TiE, Forum for Women Entreprenuers, SDForum, Hispanic-Net
• Accelerate entrepreneurial effort through inkage to post-institutional trianing: military discharged
• Latino fellowships  in tech parks and companies in countries such as Ireland, Israel, Taiwan, and India so they can learn and make contacts for future businesses