Half of all new college graduates now believe that self-employment is more secure than a fulltime job. Today, 80% of the colleges and universities in the U.S. now offer courses on entrepreneurship; 60% of Gen Y business owners consider themselves to be serial entrepreneurs, according to Inc. magazine. Tellingly, 18 to 24-year-olds are starting companies at a faster rate than 35 to 44-year-olds. And 70% of today's high schoolers intend to start their own companies, according to
a Gallup poll.

Entrepreneurship is the engine behind an innovative always-changing economy that harnesses the individual Entrepreneur. The Entrepreneur is the visionary driver building the framework and guiding this engine through startup obstacles and innovation despondencies. This breed of workers drives economic events through a semiconscious process of intuition and insight, and with a deliberate strategy and an overall vision. The next generation of entrepreneurs — digital entrepreneurs — have been growing due to an ever increasing number of digital customers and internal digital workflows. These fringe players are usually or normally at the top of the field they are in and have experience in most functions within an organization. My prediction: There will be more fringe online entrepreneurs in the next 5 years than ever before. As the digital lifestyle becomes ingrained as a behavioral attribute of the educated, next generation entrepreneurs will be there to capitalize. Just as a gas engine distributes power, control, and a steady comfortable ride, entrepreneurship does the same for its fastest moving driver: the digital entrepreneur.

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Mark Zuckerberg

Digital Entrepreneur:  A Resource Guide for Internet Entrepreneurs

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