Did You Celebrate National Entrepreneurs’ Day This Year?

Posted on 14. May, 2010 by in Business, Entrepreneurship

National Entrepreneurs' DayThe answer of course is, no.  Because there is no National Entrepreneurs’ Day.  We have a day to recognize the importance of mothers, fathers, grandparents, and even love (Valentine’s Day), but currently there is no day set aside to honor the contributions entrepreneurs have made in our society. Now a couple of creative young entrepreneurs are out to change that.  David Hauser and Siamak Taghaddos, founders of Grasshopper Group, have created a movement to get President Barack Obama to declare March 20th, 2011 as the first National Entrepreneurs’ Day, and they’re using a medium close to the President’s heart to do it – the Internet.  Their site, EntrepreneursDay.org, taps into the power of Twitter to spread the word and reach their goal of 1,000,000 “signatures.”

So what’s this movement all about?  According to the organizers, it’s about what we entrepreneurs have always known: Entrepreneurs are the true drivers of the economy and the ones who will take the doom and gloom we hear from so called economic “experts” every day on the news and turn it around.  We’re the ones who either don’t pay any attention to the media and others claiming everything is so, so terrible, or hear them out then do our thing anyway.  From building and leasing real estate and engaging professional firms to buying materials and supplies, and of course adding jobs, entrepreneurs collectively keep our economy driving forward.  Siamak Taghaddos says, “Entrepreneurs are America’s real ‘bailout’,” and he’s absolutely right.

So should we have a day recognizing entrepreneurs?  Of course we should.  Other countries acknowledge the contributions of entrepreneurs with their own Entrepreneur Days.  Even China does so!  It seems strange that the most entrepreneurial country in the world doesn’t do the same.  After all, the entrepreneurial spirit is what made the U.S. possible.  Our founding fathers were full of entrepreneurial qualities, like the need to be independent, an ability to think outside the box, and a will to buck the system.  Let’s give that spirit its due and get behind the push for National Entrepreneurs’ Day.

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At the time of this writing, only a couple of days after its launch, the site has just over 1,000 supporters, and it’s growing fast.  Some of the more prominent supporters are Pat Condon, founder of Rackspace, Noah Everett, founder of TwitPic, 37Signals founder and author, Jason Fried, and Dharmesh Shah, the founder of HubSpot.  Of course the list is huge, but that’s a few.  Now it’s your turn.  Head over to EntrepreneursDay.org and join the cause.  It’s a quick and painless signup with your Twitter account, and you just might get some recognition too.  And you’ll know you were part of history next March, when you hear people saying, “Happy Entrepreneurs’ Day!”

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13 Responses to “Did You Celebrate National Entrepreneurs’ Day This Year?”

  1. stephanie

    14. May, 2010

    count me in!

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  2. Liam Gooding

    15. May, 2010

    Hadn’t heard this but will definately go over to sign it.

    The problem is, I usually manage to miss either Fathers day or Mothers day each year – so now I’m picturing myself running to the local corner shop at the last minute to buy my business mentor a card! hehe

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  3. Karthick

    15. May, 2010

    I support Entrepreneurs’ Day.

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    16. May, 2010

    I usually manage to miss either Fathers day or Mothers day each year too.

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  5. Samantha Milner

    16. May, 2010

    Hi guys,

    This is a great idea. I hope our efforts to make this happen is not in vain. I’m heading over to the website now. Thanks for sharing.

    Kind regards,

    Sam
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  6. Brandon Connell

    16. May, 2010

    I am all for the day. We should have one being American and all, and being capitalists…

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    16. May, 2010

    I usually manage to miss either Fathers day or Mothers day each year – so now I’m picturing myself running to the local corner shop at the last minute to buy my business mentor a card!!!

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  8. Casie

    17. May, 2010

    Adam – Thanks for featuring this! We are already up to 1,300 supporters :)

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  9. Credit Girl

    17. May, 2010

    Awesome! I’m definitely gonna support this one!

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  10. Komodo Dragon

    18. May, 2010

    Great to see Chris Pirillo up there on the list, I’ve followed his site for a quite sometime hes a really cool tech guy, I’ll def be throwing my vote into this, and hoping that Obama passes this, would be a great day to honor =D

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  11. Legitiamte Work From Home Jobs

    18. May, 2010

    Hmmm…a day to honor entrepreneurs. Every day I make a buck and provide great service and receive a thanks from a satisfied customer is honor enough. My clients know it and so do I.

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  12. Brian | i-Blogger

    23. May, 2010

    I am behind this 100%! In grade-school I bought pencils with NFL Teams on them for 50 cents, then I sold them for a buck. See, I got started young, now I have 8 websites and 2 blogs that I use to make a living online.

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  13. BytesLand

    03. Mar, 2011

    Very interesting! It is good to have an established day of the year to celebrate and recognize the efforts put by the different groups of people in the society when doing their activities. It would be great to have an entrepreneur’s date in order for entrepreneurs to interact with each other, and recognize their efforts. Celebrated it very joyfully and will do that next year again)

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