SILICON VALLEY: THE SECOND WAVE by Craig Lock
As we all know, the Internet revolution is evolving at a dizzying
pace. What we see today can be history next year or even next
week. Five years from now the Internet will be quite different
from that which most of us can imagine.
The vision of a "nerdish" future with a dash of Gordon Gecko Wall
Street greed and a touch of youthful creative imagination and
energy is one that excites us in "sleepy, far-off" New Zealand.
It's a vision my partner and I, as budding netrepeneurs cherish
and have fully embraced - one whereby the small guys in
geographically isolated communities like us, can take on the
world and the major players on a relatively level playing field,
except (in most cases) for miniscule advertising budgets.
However, start-up venture capital for "high-risk ventures" is
still a big problem here in New Zealand, because, unlike in
Ireland, Czechoslovakia and other forward-thinking countries, the
government here in "Godzone" has been relatively slow to embrace
the technological revolution (though they are now getting on
board - perhaps an impending election had something to do with
it!).
The "technological revolution", electronic commerce and the
information age could be just the recipe the world needs for a
level playing field of socially responsible capitalism - one in
which smaller countries and "the little people" with imagination
+ vision can take on the corporations and the giant countries,
like the US and Japan...if only the conservative money-lenders,
the banks embraced the same vision and stopped lending umbrellas
to budding netrepeneurs when the sun's shining and asking for
them back, as soon as it's starts to rain.
The successful cyber entrepreneur of today could well be the
equivalent of the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Kennedy's, Paul
Getty's and Henry Ford's of yesteryear, especially in the new
ENTREPRENEURIAL (nice big word) AGE, which I believe, is even
more important (and a more appropriate term) than the information
age.
What you do today could repay you a hundred-fold tomorrow...and
there is just one rule: As the Nike ad says, .. "Just do it...
and PERSIST. I WILL UNTIL"
Craig Lock (Eagle Productions)
http://wwwcraiglock.com
http://www.craiglockbooks.com
The various books that Craig "felt inspired to write" are
available at: http://www.nzenterprise.com/writer/books.html
For an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an exciting
new enterprise, check out http://www.masterytv.biz/clock
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