Manemone

The advantages of being an entrepreneur these days far outweigh the benefits of a secure career with a fixed salary. We have the utmost admiration for the person who holds down a steady job and always provides the needs for his or her family.
However, after spending many of working for someone else’s company it can become seriously frustrating. Frustrations like these are not that common, especially if you are an employee working for a very strict employer. Decisions seem to take an age to be made. Senior managers are more concerned with own self, of course the first thing on their mind was to keep their status and their future as opposed to the benefit of the organization or company.

The truth is that you have the power to make your own decisions that can change your own life and goals and also your future, which are based solely on the benefit of the company and your financial wealth. You have no need for status or promotion and you can start to enjoy working providing you start to think like an Entrepreneur. Think of it, be one of the entrepreneur who are now successful these days.

As for 2009, I believe that this is going to be a great year of many opportunities. The financial crisis had the benefit of bringing a lot of people out of their comfort zone, and there is enough of a mess that people start questioning the status quo. This is a good start.
Then the presidential election in the US, with Obama getting elected by voters but also getting majority support from people from all origins in almost every country in the world has started a process that cannot be stopped. People have realized that the world needs to change, that nothing will happen unless they start doing something about it, and that Web2.0 technology gives us the power today to make it happen if we decide to. Obama has been riding that wave, and the wave is bigger than him as it is the rise of a peer to peer civilization. The coming years will see big shifts and therefore big opportunities for the people who are at the right place at the time. This is a game entrepreneurs like: 2009 will be their year.

These days there are more people who decided to be one of the entrepreneur. The Entrepreneur Commons idea is very simple, on one side provide mentors to entrepreneurs to help them mature their business plan.
On the other side provide financing resources for those entrepreneurs whose business idea is mature enough to belong to other. What is new with this is the combination of mentoring and financing in the specific context of entrepreneurs in developed countries. Entrepreneur Commons is a not-for-profit for and by entrepreneurs including a platform hosting a social network of entrepreneurs and which manages a seed investment fund offering loans to start ups.

The long term goal is to change the way start ups are being financed, as the current model works. And as a result, it is also to change the way we think about capitalism, going from individual trying to maximize their profit as the force that drives the system to fostering collaboration for a more sustainable capitalism.