An excellent summary of Intuit Future of Small Business report was written by Jeff Cornwall of the Entrepreneurial Mind blog, click here to read.

Cornwall encourages everyone to read the report that he links to in his blog post. While I can’t read the report right now, here are a few of my thoughts of Cornwall’s summary:

We are all women entrepreneurs or have the entrepreneurial mind-set–meaning you can be working a 40-hour work week, but make money on the side with your hobbies or talents and dream of making money with what you love most. Or you just enjoy making extra cash for your past-times.

Cornwall describes the un-retired as the boomers turning to self-employment because they’re seeking personal fullfilment rather than money as the primary reason to turn to entrepreneurship. [This would be the 65+ age group].

Since baby boomers make up births between 1946 – 1964, un-retirees are older than the baby boomers…and many of the moms I cater too are to moms in this age-group with teens or college-aged kids who are self-sufficient, therefore giving you more freedom to seek more education and/or learn new ways to make a buck.

Many of us are immigrants or born to them…and we have self-employment ingrained in us as the “American Dream”.

Undoubtedly, entrepreneurial life demands a certain kind of “stick-to-it-iveness”, patience, creativity, and good mentors.

We need to understand that Entrepreneur Education can not be strictly taught it class, becuase the life-lessons to empathize with trial and errors, risk and rewards, patience and pay-offs and more…MUST be felt; and read.

With the rise of the internet, there are opportunities for all of us, and start-up costs are minimal.

As a homeschool mom, all my girls (all under 6 years old) are learning, first-hand, the value of their money, time and efforts. Click here to see one of their projects. The 6 year-old has taken over.

Let’s empower each other, by sharing your foreign, youthful, womanly and boomer-thoughts below.

Tags: Women entrepreneur, Business women, Immigrant entrepreneurs, Boomer women, Unretirees

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Posted on January 25th, 2007 by ponnsabra
Filed under: Entrepreneurialism