"Spoilt and entitled." Too idealistic. "They think that they are going to change the world."
These are just a few things the of said was...
Thought that I was going to Generation Y, you say? Although I said Gen Yers (also known as the Millennials) just in the last week actually all that and more about, I'm bout actually MY generation (hat tip to The Whotalkin' '.)
But I'm not here to discuss similarities generations. Instead I want to you about Gen y. far from, lazy, Y warn gene which is by nature the most entrepreneurial generation that we ever have seen. And saying, they come to competitive for the rest of us. Are you ready to defend your lawn?
Much of this new generation of war takes place on the battlefield of technology. Millennials are digital natives; the power of technology is in their bones, and they're not afraid to use it in their business plans. The rest of us? Well, not so much.
Incredibly, about half of American small businesses do not even have a website. If you are on the wrong side of this gap, you will not be able to stand a chance in this fight. There are no more excuses. Intuit has you as AllBusiness.com editorial director Fredric Paul introduced a tool only allows noted recently that, almost immediately to build a website.
And instant are practically all the time, you have to get with the program. Scott Gerber, founder of the Young entrepreneur Councilbelieves "Technology companies now can compete." As a leading voice Gen Y entrepreneurs Gerber boasts, "we have a microwave mentality." "We can create a website in 24 hours or less, and create a business in 72 hours."
How long does it take you?
Gerber argues that there is the "tension", because "older generations Gen Y discount." "Do you think that we do not know how to build a real business." But it is not for a war call.
Instead, he thinks it's much Gen Y and lessons can each other older entrepreneurs. "If we open a real two-way dialog" he said: "We enhance everyone's ability to compete." "We can show [Boomer], as you go faster and grow faster, and we need patience, perseverance and focus to learn."
Gerber believes that powered his generation, his "business" through a combination of despair (no one is hiring) and "the cool factor." Millennials think start new companies is cool, because they believe that they were born, to change the world - and you can do from a cabin in a huge company. Change the world means that the entrepreneurial Revolution… Version 2.0.
The first entrepreneurial revolution was born in America, in the 1990s, under the direction of baby boomers came in entrepreneurship from a recession, the massive corporate layoffs led. This time the revolution is global. A few weeks ago Gerber and several other genes traveled Y entrepreneurs Egypt, courtesy of the U.S. State Department, to the promotion of entrepreneurship. He went with the expectations must inform the young Egyptians to starting and growing new companies. Once in the country, he found that it had already discovered many of the people he met on their own.
The experience has taught Gerber, that "Entrepreneurship exists in all parts of the world, even though it is seemingly missing." And that has really has the potential to change the world.
It is to create a huge entrepreneurial ecosystem, the Gerber believes (and, who argue, can?) is in the best interest of all Nations. "Global entrepreneurship is a powerful tool," said he, "and the solution for many problems that we face as a society."
And Gerber is far from alone. Take my 21-year-old nephew Ricky Kreitner. He is not a businessman, but he shares Gerber's Outlook: "Lot of creativity, even, horror of horrors, non-commercial creativity is by classical market vocabulary expressed." What do people want? What niche can I fill out? Many of the basic human drives that operate outside of the system are now expressed within the system. "We are all entrepreneurs now."
Sure, Kreitner admits that his generation is entitled. But, not necessarily a bad thing is, he said. "A sense of entitlement is, what does that Revolutionen--take a look at Tahrir square."
Just got back from Egypt Gerber is true. As young Egyptian woman told him that represents "Entrepreneurship the choice we never had." Previously, our destiny was intended. Now, if we can overthrow Mubarak, imagine what we can do. "above"
"Talents of all over the world go to unite under a single flag of entrepreneurship" predicted to Gerber. "And you are not in the war with people must go business with you."
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