Young Entrepreneurs Are Fueling this Intangible Economy
Last night while chatting at Starbucks with fellow young entrepreneurs Michael and Jason, I really started to ponder something that Michael brought up. He said: “there really isn’t a way to measure this intangible economy.”
Now let me put things into context for ya. We were talking about how young entrepreneurs are going to be the leaders of the world; how our generation will do things that have been unfathomable up to this point. How young entrepreneurs are making so many contributions at such a young age.
I joked to Michael and Jason about our parents and when they were our age the last thing they were thinking about was entrepreneurship — most of them were thinking about getting job and attaining “comfort” and “safety.”
So what is this “intangible economy” in respect to we young entrepreneurs? Put simply, it’s all of the contributions that we are making to this world that can’t be measured; that can’t be quantified; that can’t be measured in dollars and cents.
Young entrepreneurs are on the front line of innovation, capitalism, and growing our economy and many of us don’t even know it.
Just image all the speeches that we have given that resulted in someone thinking of an idea, starting a company, hiring employees, and making lives easier. Imagine how many people have read our blogs and felt inspired to go off and start a company. Imagine how many people you’ve helped with your product or service that you have no idea about. Imagine how many events that you’ve attended where you’ve engaged other entrepreneurs in deep discussions about business and technology — discussions that resulted in new technology and new business models. Sit back and just let those thoughts marinate in your head.
All of these things are happening. Our thoughts and mere interactions with people are spurring economic growth! Sure, we can’t measure it; we can’t put a monetary value on it; and we really can’t keep track of it because it quickly grows beyond our immediate circle of networks. But it’s HAPPENING.
We are making a change. We are fueling the economy with our ideas, our events/meetups/mixups, our brainstorming sessions, our long nights on the computer thinking about how these lines of code will change the world, our blog posts, our calls we make, our time spent helping other entrepreneurs, and our hunger to bring about change.
Whether you know it or not, as a young and hungry entrepreneur, you are a part of a major evolution so keep rocking on!
2 Comments
lawrence
June 6th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
intangibles, yes…we are so focus on the bottom line - of course, that we sometimes don’t ponder these things, these intangibles
this is of course rather ridiculous for an economist to put a monetary value on. it’s hard to quantify, and arguably easily subjective.
lol, i like the way - dave, you mention your MP Mixups event in this post - w/o too much sounding self-promotious
David Askaripour
June 7th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
yeah I don’t think economist will ever track the contributions of what we are doing — the only people that can attempt to do that is ourselves — everyday.
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