Entrepreneurial resources, on a library card.
Films, lessons, and eight events you can run. Unlimited free half hours between your patrons and real business advisors. And one page a month telling you what came of it.
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Four things your library gets.
Entrepreneur films
Story films about real founders, free on a library card.
Chapters of lessons
Short videos and worksheets your patrons fill in and keep.
Eight events you can run
About two hours each. The flier and the promo copy are already written.
Office Hours for your patrons
Anyone with a card books a free half hour with a real business advisor. Unlimited, and we take the calls, not your staff.
Libraries do not report outcomes because outcomes are hard to track.
Not on this form. Not on any form, in any state.
“Keep a file of these so you can pull them out at budget time.”
South Central Library System, Wisconsin, telling directors to save patron stories themselves, because nothing in library reporting captures themEvery month, we create a page on how the library created real business impact.
Cedar Hollow Public Library
Entrepreneur programming, September
“I have been selling bread for two years and never once called it a business. I called it a business on Tuesday.”Marisol R., Cedar Hollow
Since March, 79 residents have come to the library’s entrepreneur programs. Three of them have started something of their own, and one is earning money from it.
We ask at every step.
Everyone who comes signs in and says what they are working on. We ask again on every call we take.
The calls tell us the most.
People say more in half an hour with an advisor than they ever write on a form.
A name is printed only if the person says yes.
Your library never holds the list. We do, we ask each person before we use their words, and we delete a name on request.
Month one to year three.
A count you can report, and the first few names.
Twelve pages, and the first people who started something.
A town with businesses it did not have, and owners who come back to help the next ones.
Libraries have always been where people start. Nobody ever wrote it down. Now we do.
And you will not have to defend your library. The people who started there will do it for you.
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