One of the key entrepreneurial assets is industry access. If an entrepreneur has an idea that requires certain industries to produce and ship products, being unable to access them would, to put it simply, be the end of that idea.
As the internet has been evolving, modern day entrepreneurs around the world have been granted access to an increasing number of resources that their predecessors did not. Many 'middle man' aspects of idea development in self-publishing, printing, and prototyping has been made irrelevant. This has created lower costs, shorter wait time for ideas to develop and increasing rates of communication between individuals.
Listed here are 3 industries that now offer powerfully creative services directly to individuals.
1. Self-Publishing:
Self publishing a book is popular amongst entrepreneurs for many reasons. Anyone with modest resources who would want to publish a book has many advantages over people in history. Some of the advantages include retaining more ownership rights, lower manufacturing costs, dozens of online companies offering low cost solutions and easily accessible online marketing methods.
Self-Publishing Services:
2. Printing:
As an entrepreneur, you will undoubtedly require some sort of printed medium. Usually this manifests as business cards, which I highly recommend. If you go to conferences you'll need booths, flyers and other merchandise. There is no shortage of online businesses that offer cut throat pricing and delivery options to help you get a ton of printed material cheaply and quickly. The printing advantages extend into the textile industry which offers affordable custom fabrics for designers to use.
Printing:
- http://www.jukeboxprint.com/
- http://www.moo.com/
Textiles:
- http://www.spoonflower.com/
- http://www.fabricondemand.com/
3. Prototyping:
Consumer level access to devices like 3D printers (rapid prototyping) have given semi-committed individuals the ability to design-prototype-test in a very short time frame and with only modest costs. This time truncated and affordable method of low-volume manufacturing is unparalleled in human history. Thought much of 3D printing is still considered in the toddler phase of long term development, in my opinion, it remains one of the technologies with the most potential for benefiting entrepreneurship world wide.
3D Printers:
- http://www.newmatter.com/
- http://www.makerbot.com/
- http://printrbot.com/
What does this mean for a modern day entrepreneur?
The game has changed and now modern day entrepreneurs are focusing all the benefits on themselves, resulting in greater capacity and potential for success.
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