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Impact Through Participation: Shaping Public Services Workshop

Created Oct 28, 2025

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  • Steve Glange

    Steve Glange

    20 days ago
    🚀 Stop Complaining, Start Commanding: Entrepreneurs Must Shape Public Services

    Tired of bureaucratic red tape and outdated infrastructure holding your business back? Stop seeing the public sector as a burden and start seeing it as your greatest growth opportunity . Your core entrepreneurial mindset— innovation, speed, and efficiency —is exactly what local and national governments desperately need. By engaging, you don't just secure a contract; you secure a strategic competitive advantage for your business. The Two Power Moves for Massive Growth Gain Unmatched Scale & Data: Government offers an immediate, massive market. Successfully piloting your technology (e.g., smart AI, sustainable logistics) in one city or across a public utility gives your product irrefutable, large-scale validation . This is a case study your private competitors can't touch, making you instantly credible to global investors. Write the Rules, Don't Just Follow Them: Become a "Policy Entrepreneur." By sharing your deep industry expertise with regulators, you help design new laws and procurement frameworks that are enabling instead of restrictive. You turn regulatory hurdles into a first-mover advantage that is perfectly tailored to your solution. Actionable Tip: Be the Solution, Not the Vendor Instead of pitching a generic product, target a specific public pain point (e.g., slow permitting, outdated digital services). Offer a small, measurable pilot project at low risk to them. Demonstrate an immediate, data-backed ROI. This is how you build the trust that converts a small trial into a stable, massive, long-term government partnership . Your business grows when you stop waiting for the world to change and start changing the world yourself. What area of public infrastructure or service delivery are you most keen to disrupt right now?

                                           
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