The Future of Entrepreneurship

Preparing for a World That Does Not Exist

“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.”

……Ted Turner

“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

……..Peter Drucker

Trends in Entrepreneurism - 2013

• Crowdfunding• Scalable Technology• Trouble Accessing Good Talent• Entrepreneurs Are Getting Younger• Social Impact Entrepreneurism

……. Ingrid Vanderveldt Dell Center for Entrepreneurs

Generation Next Entrepreneurs

• Tim Schafer, Double Fine’s CEO

• Melodie Veverka, DBC Showroom

• Robert Nay, CEO Nay Games

“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

• Society Is Transforming

• Traditional Strategic Planning is Dead

• The Need for Resilience

• Reconceptualize the Economy

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

Comprehensive Community Transformation

• Master Capacity Builders

• Adaptive Planning and DICE

• Transformational Learning

• Parallel Processes of Futures Projects & Entrepreneurial Networks

• Mobile Collaborative Governance

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

E2 Entrepreneurship

• Community of Users and Creators

• Culture of Innovation

• Connective Concierges

• “Coworking”• Counterintuitive

Values• Complex Adaptive

Systems

“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

Rick Smyre President Center for Communities of the Future

704 864-9196 rlsmyre@aol.com