By Carol Tice
November 10, 2010
Small enterprise homeowners are up in arms. They’ve had sufficient! In fact, completely different entrepreneurs are fed up with various things. However no matter you are het up about, there is a groundwell of different enterprise homeowners you may be part of.
Here is an summary of the entrepreneurs’ actions which might be blossoming across the nation:
The most recent child on the block is Small Enterprise Saturday, a motion to assist encourage buyers to go to native outlets. Some 20 organizations are sponsors, together with Depend Me In, NAWBO, Fb, SCORE and Yelp.
Additionally on the shop-local bandwagon is Unbiased We Stand, which kicked off in September. This one has help from many native Chambers of Commerce. This one appears extra aimed toward shoppers than at networking entrepreneurs collectively, although.
Then there’s the motion to determine a Nationwide Entrepreneurs’ Day on November 19. Supporters are nonetheless pursuing approval from President Barack Obama on that to make it an official nationwide day of recognition. In the intervening time, The Kauffman Basis’s International Entrepreneurship Week, which incorporates that date, will have fun Nationwide Entrepreneurs’ Day for the primary time this yr.
Taking one other tack is The Innovation Motion, which is anti-deficit and pro-immigration and pro-free-trade. Their movies describe their perspective — cracking down on immigration is strangling American innovation.
Lastly, I’ve written previously about Construct a Stronger America, the Kauffman’s motion to strengthen the small-business sector by coming collectively to create legislative change. They had been a healthcare-reform supporter. I simply checked in to see what they’re as much as, and final month they turned the Entrepreneurs’ Motion, which could be discovered at a brand new web site, Entrepreneurship.org.
Perhaps sooner or later there will be a merger of a few of these actions into one huge motion. We’ll see, as they appear to go throughout the political spectrum. However you’d assume it will be extra impactful to be a much bigger motion.
I discover all this movement-creating attention-grabbing as a result of so many enterprise homeowners are typically lone wolves, or Kind-As who work at their enterprise 24/7. Who has time to hitch a motion? Will enterprise homeowners, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, wish to be members of a motion that may allow them to be part of?
For those who’re a part of one among these actions — or possibly one other one — weigh in with a remark and inform us about what you’ve got joined and why.
