Build businesses around visible opportunity
Entrepreneurship becomes less speculative when a regional system can see recurring demand before investment begins.
IB uses demand and capacity information to identify where additional businesses or services may be needed. Instead of start a business and find customers, IB can begin with a different question: what does the regional supply system repeatedly need that it cannot currently provide?
Potential capacity gaps
- New crop production
- Specialty production
- Wash-and-pack services
- Cold storage
- Transportation
- Seedling production
- Equipment services
- Processing
- Aggregation support
- Food-safety services
- Farm labor
- Technical services
IB can then connect participants to training, technical assistance, financing, grants, mentors, land opportunities, and other resources based on the actual constraint preventing participation. The objective is to create locally owned capacity where real economic demand can sustain it.