8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Gardens of Salonica
19 5th St NE, Minneapolis (map)
Ron Wacks, CEO of Microbusiness Strategies, will offer expert observations about why the economic recovery is not about jobs, jobs, jobs…and what it is about.
The pie and the data will tell the story. We’ll use slices of real fruit pie to reveal the startling pieces of the economic (business) pie; and discuss revealing data that take economic recovery and economic policy into the Entrepreneurial Age of the 21st century…far beyond the mid 20th century approach that most public and private sector policy makers are now (and have been) using.
Once you understand the data and the related truths, you’ll know why the “jobs, jobs, jobs” strategy is half a loaf—and alone, an unsound, implausible recipe for authentic economic recovery…and any meaningful, widespread improvement for the middle class.
We’ll also discuss:- What one-in-seven adult Americans (and Minnesotans) have in common
- Where the majority of recently created jobs are and where most of the job losses are
- Why “job creation” is moot for four of five U.S. businesses
- Why 4, 40, 400 and 4 vs. 64 are key numbers to help stimulate authentic, sustainable economic recovery
- The difference between “economic development” and “business development”—a difference that most economic policy makers don’t know or understand and why this is a litmus point
- What small businesses are and why small business policy is far from one-size-fits-all And
- Why the largest business demographic in the United States is virtually unknown, grossly underserved and rarely a part of any conversation about economic recovery and middle class restoration.
There will be plenty of time for Q & A.
Ron P. Wacks is the CEO of Microbusiness Strategies,
headquartered in Minnesota and also co-produces the IssuesLive National Forum
Series that is the first national dialogue and needs assessment for U.S.
microbusinesses to date.
Ron served for eight years as President and CEO of the
American Association of Microbusinesses, a non-profit professional association
of microbusinesses and entrepreneurs.
Ron Co-chaired the (AAM) Minnesota Small Business Expo & Conference
that began in 1999 in the gym at Marcy Open School and grew to become the largest
small business event in the Midwestern U.S. a few years later.
Ron spoke at the IFIA Conference
in Budapest, Hungary in August 2007 whose membership represented 84
countries. The Conference theme
was Innovation in the Age of
Globalization and Ron was the first American speaker in their 39-year
conference history and spoke on Innovation and Microbusinesses. Read more...
Only 3 blocks north up E. Hennepin Avenue (County Road 52) from our old meeting place, and a half block west.
As usual, invite anyone interested--free and open to the public. Come, buy your coffee (the law is you can't bring food or drinks into a restaurant), learn a lot and have your questions ready.
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