The Business Opportunity of the Decade(javacodegeeks.com)
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The Business Opportunity of the Decade
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/10/the-business-opportunity-of-decade.html
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/10/the-business-opportunity-of-decade.html
1) young entrepreneurs have a choice between working in a startup or working in an enterprise, not a hard choice.
2) given that, gradually, people working in enterprises (many of which were startups once) are a bit older, and due to that and are more likely to have kids, family
3) although they have great ideas, they don't have the time, and can't afford the risk of quitting and starting an enterprise 2.0 business.
4) also many people in enterprises are signed on a very rigid no competition agreement, so they need not to work for 1 year or so before starting a startup (which means not getting much money in the first days unless you are lucky)
5) many startup ideas come from your day to day problems, if you work in an enterprise, your ideas will be much different than if you are a student, or work for a startup.
I'm not saying that young people can't have ideas that will disrupt the enterprise world, no, they just don't likely to do so because they don't face the same problems (lucky for them) and because, let's face it, it's boring. it's much nicer to compete with Twitter than with SAP. (and I think a bit easier)
So when we'll see the old, slow, bloated, overpriced software that enterprises are selling fortune 500, banks and such be replaced with cool, faster, cheaper, better UX software like current day startups do?
When the kids of my generation will go to college, or if there will be accelerator programs targeted for working people. until then, majority of exiting startups you'll see will go around photo sharing, bike sharing, startups for web startups (A/B testing, marketing, tools, APIs)
only very few will go and target something like ERP, call center apps, medical records, and all that multi billion dollar market that companies like SAP, IBM, HP, Oracle own.