Gobi aims to help ten million entrepreneurs by 2022 through mentorship, access to funding, and education. The presentation discusses entrepreneurs and the stages they go through, and how Gobi can support entrepreneurs at each stage of development.

1. Ten Million Steps To Gobi Presenter: Scot Thom Gobi Twitter: @scotthom LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/scotthom Slideshare: gobisuccessful

2. The purpose of Gobi is to help entrepreneurs achieve their dreams through mentorship, access to funding and education. GOAL: To help ten million entrepreneurs by 2012.

3. Agenda Who is an entrepreneur? Why are they important? What are the stages they go through? What support do they need at each stage? How will Gobi help an entrepreneur? What can you do to help?

4. Entrepreneur Oxford Dictionary Definition a person who undertakes an enterprise or business, with the chance for profit or loss a contractor acting as an intermediary the person in effective control of a commercial undertaking Variations – social, web, green, serial, mom Entrepreneurial Spirit

5. Entrepreneurs See Opportunity

6. Stages

7. Entrepreneurial Support Organizations: Business Enterprise Centres, Community Futures Development Corp., Regional Incubators (TBDC, Communitech), Industry Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs, JCI, EO, TEC, BNI..... Possible Scenario: SMB to Corporate to Enterprise to Fortune

8. Gobi Mentoring Access To Funds Education

9. Summary Entrepreneurs do not have to start a business – it can be a community project or an improvement on a process within a larger enterprise. Entrepreneurs see opportunity in almost any given situation. The support required for entrepreneurs vary at each stage. Gobi exists to fill the gap for existing business that are coming to the end of their growth phase and entering the plateau phase.