The #1 Reason Everyone Should Be An Entrepreneur

Never in the history of our species have we been able to reach as many people as we can right this second. The internet hasn't just leveled the playing field. It's destroyed it, leaving nothing but opportunity in the rubble. While others rot their brains on cat video clips, you have a chance.

A chance to work on your own terms. A chance to control your destiny. A chance to be your own boss, do what you're good at and make a handsome profit in the process. Who can argue with that?

Technology -and the internet in particular- has done almost as much for entrepreneurs as the invention of money itself. Thanks to the sheer reach and magnitude of the internet, coupled with instant global finance and affordable technologies, businesses can start up in a day.

You don't even need a domain name.

For those of us who don't have a clue about other pertinent business topics like sales, marketing or networking, here's another benefit of technology and the internet: virtually all we know as a species is floating around on the internet somewhere. If you have a have a head full of unanswered questions, the answers out there somewhere, whether on a blog or in the mind of a freelancer available for hire.

You just have to keep clicking.

Thanks to affordable entrepreneurship technologies -from payment processors like PayPal, commerce platforms like Shopify and funding platforms like Kickstarter just to name a few- anyone with an internet connection can become an entrepreneur. There are hundreds of thousands of unique markets you can dive into and millions of customers within each.

I did it with gold grills and it worked out pretty well.

Technology hasn't just lowered the barrier to entry. It's eliminated it. The problem is this tremendous access can be paralyzing for some. You only have two options, though: leverage it to your benefit as a producer or get lost in the crowd as just another consumer.

Processes that once took days or even weeks can be completed in seconds. Need a contract signed? Click. Need a payment sent? Click. From online stores to flexible work environments and global collaboration, there's no limit to what can be accomplished online. And if there is a limit, there's a good chance an entrepreneur is out there writing the code to get past it as you read this.

No other generation in history has had the opportunity we have right this very second: to start and build businesses in the blink of an eye. We owe this great opportunity to technology. And we owe it to ourselves to take advantage of it while we can.