Startup Idea: Rural Entrepreneur Success Scraper

Startup idea to develop a web scraper to gather success stories of small town or rural entrepreneurs and businesses from across the internet. This tool would assist in building an inspirational resource of role models to motivate and educate rural and small town businesses and entrepreneurs about the potential of online ventures.

My work focuses on helping teach and motivate rural and small town businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals to use the internet to increase their part-time incomes, stay-at-home incomes or their businesses. One obstacle in this arena is a lack of access to successes that have occurred in other small towns or rural areas. Information is available online, via media (print, predominately). I really could use some sort of scrapper that would collect across the net role models of successful small town entrepreneurs or businesses that I can share on the site I am developing. The obstacles that are felts in small towns and rural can be overcome but the lack of peer reinforcement is an issue -- and most have little time to go looking for that which inspires. People overlook the rural/small town markets where some 24% of the population does reside. As a result, there is a lack of focus on developing tools that address the needs of this specific market.

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