1. The Future of
Entrepreneurship
Preparing for a World That Does Not
Exist
2. “My son is now an „entrepreneur.‟ That‟s what
you‟re called when you don‟t have a job.”
……Ted Turner
3. “The entrepreneur always searches for
change, responds to it, and exploits it as an
opportunity.”
……..Peter Drucker
4. Trends in Entrepreneurism - 2013
• Crowdfunding
• Scalable Technology
• Trouble Accessing Good Talent
• Entrepreneurs Are Getting Younger
• Social Impact Entrepreneurism
……. Ingrid Vanderveldt
Dell Center for Entrepreneurs
5. Generation Next
Entrepreneurs
• Tim Schafer, Double
Fine’s CEO
• Melodie Veverka, DBC
Showroom
• Robert Nay, CEO Nay
Games
6. “Part of the challenge of being an
entrepreneur, if you’re going for a really huge
opportunity, is trying to find problems that
aren’t quite on the radar yet and try to solve
those.”
………Sean Parker
7. • Society Is
Transforming
• Traditional Strategic
Planning is Dead
• The Need for
Resilience
• Reconceptualize the
Economy
8. Creative Molecular Economy
• An ability to identify “weak
signals” about what the future
holds
• A broad-band infrastructure
capable of uploading and
downloading massive amounts
of data and video-streaming
• A Future Forward Workforce
• Crowd-sourced innovation
• New ways to access capital for
start-ups
• “Additive” Manufacturing
• The formation of interlocking
networks to build momentum
for new ideas, whether
economic, educational or
governance
9. Comprehensive Community
Transformation
• Master Capacity Builders
• Adaptive Planning and
DICE
• Transformational
Learning
• Parallel Processes of
Futures Projects &
Entrepreneurial
Networks
• Mobile Collaborative
Governance
10. Start-Up Ingredients
• Entrepreneurs Must
Lead the Way
• There Has To Be a
Long-Term View
• Everyone Should Be
Allowed to Participate
• There Has To Be
Constant Activity
11. E2 Entrepreneurship
• Community of Users
and Creators
• Culture of Innovation
• Connective
Concierges
• “Coworking”
• Counterintuitive
Values
• Complex Adaptive
Systems
12. “Generation Flux describes the people
who will thrive best in an environment of
constant change. Their characteristics are
clear: an embrace of adaptability and
flexibility; an openness to learning from
anywhere; decisiveness tempered by the
knowledge that business life today can
shift radically every three months or so.”
….Robert Safian
Fast Company
