"I believe that we will look back at this decade as the beginning of an economic revolution as important as the scientific revolution in 16th century and the industrial revolution in 18th century. We’re standing at the beginning of the entrepreneurial revolution." - http://steveblank.com/2010...
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"The barriers to entrepreneurship are not just being removed. In each case they’re being replaced by innovations that are speeding up each step, some by a factor of ten. For example, Internet commerce startups the time needed to get the first product to market has been cut by a factor of ten, the dollars needed to get the first product to market cut by a factor of ten, the number of sources of initial capital for entrepreneurs has increased by a factor of ten, etc."
- Paul Buchheit
I certainly see in the web app world things move really fast. There are also some physical products like t-shirts, EyeFi, Square, FitBit where the web made it easy to customize/market/sell the product. However I don't have a good sense of how much change there's been for entrepreneurs working in other markets — beer, automobiles, plywood, packaged food, air conditioners, etc.
- Amit Patel
It is definitely a pleasant dream in which the country and the whole world suddenly behaves like Bay Area does. I have my doubts though. Happy Thanksgiving!
- eugenio
Beer has all kinds of new viral marketing strategies now. Automobiles: look at Local Motors for manufacturing, zipcar for auto transportation. The Information Age can affect existing industries as radically as the Industrial Age affected agriculture.
- Bruce Lewis