Entrepreneurship Reimagined: From Storefronts to Side Hustles.
A Wake-up Call for Entrepreneurship Support.

Are you perpetuating barriers or building bridges?

Our entrepreneurial support ecosystem was built for a different era: storefronts, payrolls, and long business plans. But today's entrepreneurs look different: they're side-hustlers generating income from laptops, creators monetizing their skills through apps, and micro-business owners who need resources now, not bureaucratic obstacle courses.

Consider this: The U.S. now counts nearly 30 million non-employer (solo) businesses. The gig economy is a $1 trillion+ ecosystem.

At the same time, AI is democratizing entrepreneurship, allowing solopreneurs to do the work of entire teams.

Doug Luciani shares how today’s entrepreneurs are being slowed or shut out by outdated systems stuck in the “earner vs owner” mentality of the past. Systems that never imagined the gig economy, the creator marketplace, or the AI-powered solopreneur.

This session is both a reality check and a call to action: Are we reinforcing a system that keeps ownership out of reach or designing one that works for how people actually build today?