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Posted on 01. Nov, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry in Uncategorized
Does South Africa have remarkable entrepreneurial heroes under the age of 25?
While we build shrines for young sports people who hold there own, there’s a black hole where young business role models should be.
Perhaps a lesson to be learned from the US is Business Week’s "America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs," (under 25) feature, which guided us to these guys; who started something called Amie Street.
Amie Street, an online music retail site for independent content, uses
a unique rating system where all songs are available for free at first.
Then, depending on how popular a song is within a market, it goes up in
price. The site tries to engage users by giving them a set number of
recommendations and rewards them with a set amount of free music they
can download when their recommendations do well.
Ahh – the entrepreneurial spirit is strong with this one. Point is that if you want to create a culture of entrepreneurs and economic success – the spotlight and the paparazzi have to be hounding our young business success stories like it does for our kwaito and sports stars.
America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs – Business Week
Young, fearless and smart – Business Week
