That comment was absolutely golden, and an idea that I've advocated for a long time now.

We can't rely on web/high/bio/green technology to save us. As a heterogeneous society with differing skin tones and accents and places of origin, we also have differing education levels. You can't say "hey there, person from a mining town with 5 generations of mining-town subsistence living, come join us over in good ol' Silly-Con valley and pull up a cubicle, work on some Erlang". But, is Mining Jane somehow less deserving of a shot at entrepreneurship than Aspie Joe who was raised with a keyboard under his fingers? When it boils down to it, they're both a big risk, and as we've seen our fair share of pizzerias and beauty supply shops go out business in our lifetime, we've also seen tech flameouts of the scale that makes the pizzeria one look like a rounding error. And, that's the _vast majority_ of *-tech venture. Only a few come out on top.

I think a refocus of the SBA and Startup America and all those other things should be to empower entrepreneurship at _every_ skill, education, and economic level. Look for opportunities like Champs. Set up a 1-2 million dollar fund for them to continue educating, maybe give out grants. So what if there's a barber shop or bodega or gun shop on every block. I'd much rather they toil and struggle away on a business than slog it out at the french frier for the big Clown McMachine. And, when they fail, hey they fail. But, they fail with a much better feel for how real business is supposed to run, and they might get better at it (or go work for someone else in a much higher position than one that requires bell-bottom uniforms and a paper hat).