Empowering Entrepreneurs
Just had to share a quick story. A friend recently gave me a couch when he moved and I needed to get the couch from Marina Del Ray to my apartment in Brentwood. I needed someone with a truck who could help me move. Of course this being LA I know a grand total of zero people who drive pick-up trucks. So where did I turn? Craig’s List of course.
I found a guy there who owned a truck and who showed up tonight and helped with the move. But it turned out to be a lot more difficult than I anticipated due to the stairwells in my apartment (note to self: always measure couches before attempting to move them). What I thought would be 30 or 45 minutes turned into two hours of sweat-inducing, oh-shit-I’m-not-sure-we-can-do-this labor. In the end we were able to get it into our living room. My guy and I celebrated (I think we might have even high-fived?!) and I gave him a solid bonus for the extra effort.
Why am I telling you this?
Well before my guy left he told me his story of being an entrepreneur and finding all of his clients on Craig’s List. When he told me this I could see the fire in his eyes and even as I write this I have goosebumps. Craig’s List, like a number of other sites (eBay being another notable example), has been successful in large part because of the fact that it has created entrepreneurial opportunities for thousands of people. Without Craig’s List I would not have been able to find my guy and he would not be able to find the jobs he’s able to find to support himself.
Empowering entrepreneurs is exactly what we’re going to do here at Education Revolution.
There’s a generation waiting in the wings that can make their livelihood teaching other people. Not in a stifling, bureaucratic setting but rather in an entrepreneurial setting where they are given strong incentives to innovate, to be creative and to do their darnedest to serve their customers.
Whenever I come across a story of a website serving to empower an entrepreneur I can’t wait to get to market and start doing the same for thousands of people. It’s gonna be amazing.
One Comment
- 1. Dave Schappell said:
I couldn’t agree with you more, Jon — I have a feeling we’re two peas in a pod on this topic — I look forward to catching up with you soon — I replied to Dave M’s LinkedIn invite, but haven’t heard from you yet — have a great Memorial Day!
Dave
posted May 26th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
