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Young Entrepreneurs – The Lifeblood of the U.S. Economy!
Nearly 235 years ago this country was founded and built by brave, strong visionaries wishing to have more control of their lives. The original entrepreneurs! It is their blood, sweat and tears mixed with their tenacity that set the footers for the economy of this great country.
Through the years the entrepreneur’s popularity and noteworthiness has faded and surfaced through different economic times. The entrepreneur has been praised and jeered, credited and discredited, recognized and ignored, even vilified. But make no mistake; every single product and service you use is delivered by a company that originated by an entrepreneur. (I can safely make that statement because if you are reading BABM, you are not living off the government.)
The engine of the USA is not powered by the government. The engine of our country is powered by the entrepreneur. What if the government had to operate its “business” like every other company? What if our elected officials had to actually pay their taxes on time like the rest of us or pay their taxes period? What if they only got paid when they actually showed up for work and contributed to the bottom line?
In the last few years several entrepreneurship undergraduate and graduate degree programs have been launched. There are good ones and not so good ones. The best programs are the ones that actually embrace the spirit and creativity of the emerging entrepreneur. They have entrepreneurs actively involved in the curriculum as instructors, mentors or program developers. The bad ones are the ones that are organized, supervised and taught by academics who have no idea how to actually launch and build a profitable company because they have been employees all their lives. They teach theory and you need more than theory during challenging economic times.
In this issue we are proud to showcase a young Tampa Bay company whose founder, Sven Teuber, is a student of the USF Entrepreneurship program. Be sure to read about the Ad Committee and how they can assist you in building your company.
For the last four years BABM has received emails from across the country from young successful entrepreneurs. Many are college students in their 20s and 30s and they are inspirational examples for the next masons of our U.S. economy.
On May 1st BABM will launch Ingenuity USA© on BABM.com. The first Ingenuity USA© story is Tiesta Tea, founded by college students in Chicago. The full resource website will launch by the end of the summer. If you are interested in sponsoring any of our young entrepreneur stories or other features on www.IngenuityUSA.com , please contact me personally at 727-596-9791 or BB@IngenuityUSA.com .
Your success is our goal!
Bevv
