Dylan Reid: Young Entrepreneurs Create Their Own Jobs. As June approaches, the million and a half students set to graduate from college in the U.S. this year likely have just one thing are their mind: the job market.
For each of these students faced with an uncertain, unstable or imprudent future, there will be a strong impulse to pursue the safest path, often on the periphery of their passions. So to all this year's graduates wavering between boring job prospects and graduate school admissions, debating backpacking trips across Europe or Latin American missions with the Peace Corps, we propose an alternative. Instead of looking for a job: create your own. The time for entrepreneurship is now.
Crowdfunding: open business models. Crowdfunding sites - how to raise funds from friends and strangers. Crowdfunding websites are a new way to get money from the community / other people for your project, charity or business and they are an exciting new application of crowdsourcing! Here's a definition of crowdfunding from Wikipedia: Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing or crowd sourced capital) describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money together, usually via the Internet, in order to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations. Crowdfunding occurs for any variety of purposes, from disaster relief to citizen journalism to artists seeking support from fans, to political campaigns.
Last week we met the founders of Fundbreak (Rick Chen and Alan Crabbe) a crowdfunding website for Australian creatives (designers, artists, musicians etc). Here are 4 good crowdfunding sites you should consider: