Youth Entrepreneurship: A Creative Industry

              Youth Entrepreneurship: A Creative Industry

   

We are living through an unprecedented worldwide entrepreneurship revolution with youth at the helm of this renaissance. I would argue that the quote “Future belongs to youth” in itself is outdated when in fact the present belongs to the youth. With both present and future belonging to youth, the problems of the world, which dare say I are complex fall on the able shoulders of youths like me. In a way the responsibility to actualize SDGs is upon us.

Talking about youths, the zeal, passion and drive to contribute, to solve the defining problems of our generation, to make a difference is the beat of striving young entrepreneurs. The disruptive innovation in technologies, many of which took shape through young minds, have become the forte of youths and tech startups turning into billion dollars enterprises exemplifies the very fact.

Growing up in Nepal, Asia, one cannot help but notice, while the rest of world population is aging, we are getting younger, this puts youths like me in a position to grab on to the challenge and opportunity it offers. The fact that startup movement have expanded beyond Silicon Valley into Shanghai, Bangalore, Manila, and Singapore is a telling sign where the larger part of innovation is going to come from.

Gone are the days when one needed heavy infrastructure and capital to launch business. Disruptive innovations in production, distribution, marketing, communication, the access to big data have empowered and inspired a generation of youths to pursue entrepreneurship.

 The fact that the world’s largest retailer amazon owns no goods, Airbnb owns no real state shows us where the industry is heading. Entrepreneurship indeed have become the vessel of expression for youths through which they showcase their creativity, offering pragmatic, profitable, sustainable solutions to real world problems.

However the task of establishing successful startup is daunting as shown by vast majority of startups that fail but the real game changing enterprises that literally stared from garages prove it’s possible.

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