Are you an entrepreneur? Building a business or an organization can be difficult, especially if trying to do it alone. In the Enterprise Tribe, we build our businesses together, creating greater opportunity for ourselves by working with each other. Our businesses are independent of each other; yet drawing upon the skills of our community our businesses become stronger.
In the US’s agrarian past, farmers worked together helping each other with each other’s barn raising. Admits the chaos of this time, individual entrepreneur-farmers were able to survive and thrive through their support of each other, and through this, were significantly more successful as they took their products to market.
Today, the chaos of the business world has created a similar situation where entrepreneurs are using the Internet and social networks to bind together, and support each other, creating new business opportunities that would not be present if they tried to stand alone. Following the lead of open source software developers, entrepreneurs are increasingly creating success by banding together and taking on previously unreachable business success.
Previous models of entrepreneur support have been limited to:
1. Cocktail hours and classes. Network with other businessmen and somehow through that create business opportunities
2. Presentations where the “experts” tell their stories (with no interaction from the “audience”)
3. One on one coaching, where the entrepreneur pays the coach
4. MBA style training- take two years off and learn about the “theory of business”
In the world of “web 2.0” style interactions- “conversations not broadcast” have become possible at a level never possible before. Dialogue practices that were once limited to having a town hall meeting between a small group of people can be scaled to much larger groups. Previous “physical-location-only” groups were limited to their efficacy because they required participants to invest time in getting to the location, and required “real time” interaction. Now social networks allow much greater interaction than possible before… and entrepreneurs can leverage their limited time by not only going to some of the physical-location groups, but also solve business problems based on social networking interactions.
The Enterprise Tribe Event, sponsored by Enterprise Teaming, llc and a number of other organizations brings entrepreneurs together both in the physical and Internet world through innovative uses of social technology in order to support entrepreneurs to build their businesses faster.