BIX--Bpeace Innovation Exchange

Business owners: BE BOLD with BIX at your side, powered by 300+ Skillanthropists.

1. Business owners in economically-challenged communities need affordable access to expert advice from business people.  Without that advice, they often make costly mistakes, or overlook solid opportunities. The negative effect is that business expansion is stymied, jobs are lost, young people turn to gangs, violence occurs, families are unable to send children to school, and there is mass migration to find safety and economic hope.

2. More jobs mean less violence. We propose a cloud-based BIX forum where well vetted Bpeace Skillanthropists (volunteer business experts) provide advice to equally well vetted business owners from economically-challenged communities (example: Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia, Afghanistan). BIX builds on Bpeace's 15-year proven track record of expert advice to owner/founders either in-person or virtually. BIX would allow us to serve wider numbers of established entrepreneurs in more communities.

3. No one wants to leave home. More jobs make it more appealing for people to stay in their own homeland, and build a future of peace and security.

The political and media discourse today, focuses on the effects of violence and migration. Bpeace goes back to the root and uses technology to help businesses in diverse industries grow, create jobs, and cut the oxygen to violence and migration.

Bi-lateral advice is always possible from Skillanthropist to business owner.  But that is one to one advice. Just like reading Apple's help desk answers to someone else, we all gain when we read the exchange. Cloud-based BIX provide the opportunity to crowd solve problems with transparency that any business owner in the program can witness and apply.

Scale our model into new countries, especially Lebanon where unemployment is 35% plus. 

Every job created, sustains 4-6 family members. The multiplier effect is unlimited.

We will promote BIX through social media and email invitations.  Business owner/founders will apply online. We will review and accept businesses that are at least 2 years old, and employ more than 10 locals.

Everyone will have passwords.

Money.