Alaska Entrepreneurship Check-In

This session is only as good as what walks into it. Five questions is the whole ask. Answer those and you have contributed something usable; the optional section after them is where the statewide picture actually comes from.

What do Alaska’s entrepreneurs and small businesses need that they do not have today?

Be specific. "Capital" is a category; "no lender in town will look at a first-year fishing operation" is an answer somebody can act on.

What already exists here that works, but needs to be better?

Programs, agencies, funding, training, infrastructure. What is worth keeping and fixing rather than replacing.

Rank these by how much they hold you back, biggest first

Access to capital
Finding and keeping workers
Permitting and regulation
Reaching customers and markets
Cost of operating: energy, freight, rent
Infrastructure and logistics
Mentorship, networks and advice
Cost and availability of housing

Drag, or use the arrows, to put these in order. Top is the biggest barrier.

If you had five minutes with a legislator, what one change would you ask for?

One change. The discipline of picking one is the point.

If this is used publicly, how should it be credited? optional

Use it without my name You may use my name and organization

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The deeper picture

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