A netsetter is an entrepreneur who understands what the Internet means for making money, starting businesses and changing the way they live.
A netsetter realizes that the Internet means you can bootstrap almost any endeavor until it becomes profitable.
A netsetter realizes that geographical location no longer prohibits collaboration between anyone.
A netsetter knows that just because you have employees doesn’t mean you need an office. You might not have even met them.
A netsetter doesn’t dream about four hour work weeks and location independent businesses. They create them.
Or, they create their dream business and work every waking hour.
It’s about throwing off the trappings of yesterday’s culture and embracing the possibilities and opportunties that have been made available to us through the Internet.
There’s a work revolution occurring across the globe. There are full-time employees doing their jobs effectively from their own home. There are freelancers who can meet more clients in a day through social networking than they could have through a month of real world networking before. Almost anyone can afford a virtual assistant—assistants don’t just sit outside executive’s doors anymore.
There are large teams of people meeting corporate objectives from locations all over the globe without ever having met face-to-face. And, leading the charge, there are the netsetters—the everyday people who are taking up their own causes and making a living on their own two feet, spreading their ideas, employing their own remotely distributed teams.
In early 2009, Envato CEO Collis Ta’eed started the Netsetter as a place to discuss startups. We’ve evidently grown to cover a lot more today, but here’s what Collis said at the time, shedding some light on the origins of the term “netsetter”:
“With the barriers to starting your own online business getting lower and lower, there’s a growing class of online entrepreneurs that I sometimes call the net set, kinda like that old term the jet set – which doesn’t make much sense any more now that I think about it. From that term came the name of this blog, because I hope that you dear reader are a fellow netsetter!”
If you realize that you can change your life, your income and the way you work through the power of the Internet, you are a netsetter.
