While technology has made the shift to home-based businesses easier, entrepreneurs who compete with corporate rivals may still need help establishing their credibility, projecting confidence and looking larger than they are.

Originally, people thought if you operated out of your home it was a step down, but today, it's a very viable option. The erroneous home-based business stereotype of the housewife seeking extra pin money has been replaced by the baby-boomers who seek independence and flexibility.

It's just good business to do business with women.

Our whole goal with this event is to educate entrepreneurs about what is possible in terms of licensing technology.

Our goal is to create technology that will enable individual inventors and entrepreneurs to provide new services of value similar to large Internet services people use every day. The companies benefit by witnessing ideas in pre-competitive technologies at the early stages of development, and they will help point out the real-world obstacles that must be overcome.

Intel Viiv technology is our first platform designed from the ground up for the digital home.