Tanya Hertz

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I am the Director of the Entrepreneurship program, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Director of the Regional Entrepreneurship Center - REC Innovation Lab at San Diego Miramar College. I have been Lecturer at San Diego State University’s College of Business Administration since 2011 where I teach Entrepreneurship and Business Management. After teaching for almost a decade at SDSU, and starting several successful companies myself, I recognized that there was no place for aspiring entrepreneurs to get help at the idea stage. I was impressed with the success of the SDSU on-campus incubator, and proud of our accomplishments, but I felt frustrated that critical resources were only available to university students for a very short period of time. All of the industry incubators were for later-stage businesses that already had traction. Community college incubators focused on supporting small businesses. No one was helping regular people who had an idea and wanted to turn that idea into a high-growth startup. What was worse, I realized that minorities and women were often left out of the entrepreneurship ecosystem altogether and were very rarely targeted for inclusion in incubat

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