Planet Entrepreneur

The world is currently experiencing tumultuous change and there is an urgent need to find solutions to new and old challenges alike. Whether it is climate change, pollution, poverty, economic stagnation, or underemployment-we need innovative, workable solutions more than ever. Fortunately, to the entrepreneur, problems are opportunities. Today, a global revolution of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship is fundamentally changing the planet for the better. The problem-solving nature of entrepreneurship lends itself not just to business but also to a vast array of social problems. With the right attitude and skill-set, an entrepreneur innovates, creates something out of nothing, and changes the status quo for the better. With the advent of new markets online and off, affordable, empowering technology, and new attitudes, entrepreneurs have become today's global rock stars. Planet Entrepreneur explores the full extent of this fascinating and multi-faceted global entrepreneurial revolution. Through real-world examples, stories, and strategies, this book explains just how important, vital, and vast this revolution is, what the emerging markets are, where the opportunities today lie, and how to tap into the entrepreneurial mindset to achieve success. Written by members of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, the first think tank fully dedicated to entrepreneurship, each chapter focuses on different aspects of the challenges and opportunities currently being encountered (and solved!) by entrepreneurs, including: The cutting-edge ideas and real-world skills that today's best entrepreneurs use most often Using technology to solve real-world problems Social entrepreneurship and the end of charity Empowering women and minority entrepreneurs The global rise of the self-employed entrepreneur Opportunities for improving housing, food, sanitation, and more among the world's most needy people Making the marriage of business and the environment work for all Social media as a launching pad for your ideas And much more Planet Entrepreneur details where the global entrepreneurial revolution is headed and explains how anyone can become more entrepreneurial. Whether the issue requires starting a successful business and making a profit, innovating, or creating an organization to meet a pressing social need, Planet Entrepreneur explains how the world's best entrepreneurs are doing so, and how you can too. Today's problems are too urgent and the implications for our future too dire. In response, millions of entrepreneurs around the world are inventing a new paradigm to accelerate change across the world. We are now all living on Planet Entrepreneur.