Many of you have products they can create or services they can provide.
- You use resources or may produce them
- Your processes need equipment or you may supply them
- The equipment may need maintenance, or you may maintain them
- Your products may need to be marketed or your skills may be marketing
- Your products need distribution or this may be a service you can provide
- You are not skilled at everything
- Everything you need is expensive
- You are having to pay more entities more money because of your small size
- You are competing with big business who do things cheaper.
- Connecting multiple small business bring benefits of scale
- Identifies individuals with time and skills
- Connects them to individuals with resources
- Makes it easy and attractive to start small and think big
- Focuses on sustainability using local reources
- Naturally decentralised and self supporting