Comments on: The Coming Wave of Entrepreneurship

By: Andrew Willems

Andrew Willems — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:48:48 +0000

One thing that these Empires of One will really need to capitalize upon is community building. You touch on it with the business colony solution, but this is different.

Let’s say we are all entrepreneurs so we all are trying to attract customers and business. What will be the edge to market ourselves above the playing field? Community building. We will all have content, we will all have commerce ability to ship product but those who can develop a community of people through which goods and services flow will rule this entrepreneurial future. Start working at growing a community!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:51:29 +0000

It depends on your definition of disaster. Everything we do today is simply a stage-setter for what comes next. If we all played it safe and didn’t take risks, we’d still be living in the stone age.

By: Nan Patience

Nan Patience — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:57:05 +0000

Not everyone’s cut out to be an entrepreneur though, and employment better suits most. This entrepreneur thing lures too many people away from jobs and into disaster.

By: Openworld

Openworld — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:41:10 +0000

Thomas,

Great to have the news on satoriedu.com. At “Assisting Entrepreneurial Schools” (www.entrepreneurialschools.com), we’ve been helping catalyze peer creation of eLessons in developing countries, and proposing student-owned actual and virtual learning ventures in areas of the US where public schools have been failing.

Best

Mark Frazier
Openworld.com
@openworld (twitter)

By: admin

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:38:26 +0000

Jay, some very good questions.

While Moodle is making some good inroads, I don’t see it reaching the point of having the explosive growth necessary to become a serious alternative to public education. I’d written about the Future of Education in this paper – http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2007/03/the-future-of-education/ and Clayton Christianson wrote more extensively on this theme in his book “Disrupting Class”

A company that is in the early stages of totally disrupting education is SatoriEDu.com, started in Denver by Pat Engstrom, founder of KnowledgeFactor. They’ve asked me to work as an advisor to the company and have brought in some significant talent to build a very scalable platform for a standardized templated courseware builder.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:52:57 +0000

Very cool outlook. I was getting worried about the economy for a while, I was even getting angry at the financial institutions who helped this happen…

Then I talked to my aunt. She’s retired from owning a successful PR firm. She told me that her losses in the stock market have directly affected the way she lives. She also told me she was glad that the economy is crashing. What?

She put it like this: it’s forcing people to get creative again, there are alot of people out there like my aunt who had simply retired. Now these people are being forced to go back to work and find a way to make money again. These people also happen to be among the most creative and qualified.

In the next 5-10 years I wouldn’t doubt seeing a tremendous rush of creativity and production that pushes our economy into a new era of capitalism.

By: Dr. Jay Gary

Dr. Jay Gary — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:30:14 +0000

Tom, you are dead-one with this assessment and call for business hatcheries and seed capitalists for early stage start-ups. Chris Dede calls them neomillennialists– or learning strategies of distributed online communities that create new value. I am based in Virginia now at Regent, teaching MBAs to PhDs on global transformative enterprises, that use foresight to create these new micro-economies of creativity. My school, GLE aims to lead this new movement, and has been doing this in Peru through entrepreneurial competitions. I am asking myself: can our legacy system of Blackboard change fast enough to allow us not just learn but launch new enterprises?. Our curriculum is there, but our learning management software is lagging five years just to incorporate social networking and business hatcheries. We are not even taking here about embedding the coming artificial intelligences of 2015 or 2020. By then Blackboard might be lagging 10 years to incorporate those tools. Do you see open source systems like Moodle catching this wave of business hatcheries? In your opinion, what should business schools do?

By: Teresa Grobecker

Teresa Grobecker — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:29:22 +0000

You guys have nailed it on the head! This is truly the waive of the future, and speaks to the multiple projects I’m working on now. Thanks for validating my efforts!
Cheers!

By: Scott Schroeder

Scott Schroeder — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:37:17 +0000

We have in fact shifted from physical products to online gaming for now…please watch AllTerraSkates YouTube channel – be entertained by some of our high definition feature presentations…then in exchange you could buy our New 3D Computer Chess Set – if you are an honest person…25$

Thanks Tom, cool story…Scott