The Heart of Entrepreneurship
Published by Bob Foster
The heart of entrepreneurship—wanting to make something happen!
The Kauffman Foundation just released a new “sketchbook” video narrated by Tim O’Reilly, the founder of O’Reilly media, Make Magazine, and Maker Faire. This is a short video discussing the self-motivated spirit that drives entrepreneurs.
O’Reilly maintains that, many times, the hotbeds of a new industry have been created by hobbyists playing with new technologies. Watch the video.
(For email subscribers, view the video on my blog site)
The release of the video coincides with the announcement of this year’s Makers Faire being held in Kansas City, June 23-24, 2012. This event will feature 400 presentations of new ideas—some of which could be the next new hotbed industry. The presentations will be in “exhibit booth” format, so anyone interested can get up close and personal with the ideas and the creators.
If you have an interest in new ideas, and want to be where many of them come together in one place, or if you have an idea you want to share…Makers Faire is the place to be this year.
I like what O’Reilly says as he explains that if you do something you love, if you just want to make something happen—without money being your objective—many of those things will actually turn into a business.
That’s really the heart of entrepreneurship—wanting to make something happen.”
What are you doing that you love? Are you “wanting to make something happen?”
Tell us about it.
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