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Entrepreneurship. By Anthony Cerrato and Jeremy Wong. Problem Question. How do we help foster the change from a community that struggles to meet its needs to one that meets or even exceeds its needs?. Problem. The community of San Pablo has a lack of Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship • By Anthony Cerrato and Jeremy Wong
Problem Question • How do we help foster the change from a community that struggles to meet its needs to one that meets or even exceeds its needs?
Problem • The community of San Pablo has a lack of Entrepreneurship • They want one of the goals of Guateca to be to encourage young men and women to be Entrepreneurs
There is a less developed system of job specialization in San Pablo
Pete has also stated that one of his goals on his first Guateca trip was to create enterprises in the community. • So far no enterprises have been created from Guateca in San Pablo
Constraints • Funding • Training • Competition from the private sector • Hurdles from government • Lack of resources • Lack of mentorship within the community
Microfinancing • Microfinancing is a possible solution and has been used to finance many enterprises in rural low-income communities • Kiva has given $248 million in loans with a 98.87% return rate
What is being done? • The appropriate technologies being developed in this class and in the MIT D lab. • Making sure the technology will be used to create enterprises will be difficult, but it is not impossible!