Young World Rising

Reviews / Votes

"Every new generation gets a lot of attention, though it's not always positive. But if millennials have been scrutinized more closely than any generation since the 1960s, it's because of one factor; they're plugged deep into the internet and have the skills to make the most of its opportunities. Salkowitz's book takes this idea and runs with it, globally. He shows how tiny startups in India, Brazil and other nations whose populations trend young are building online businesses on investment shoestrings, collaborating with others in their cohort (often across borders) and creating innovative approaches to maximize minimal resources." (Delta Sky Magazine, July 2010) "I highly recommend the insightful and visionary book by Rob Salkowitz, to anyone seeking a more complete understanding of the youth based entrepreneurial ITC boom sweeping the developing world. The book will inspire governments, corporations, international organizations, and non-governmental agencies to seek fresh, market based initiatives to ensure that the entrepreneurial revolution continues without being derailed by special interests..." (BlogBusinessWorld, July 31, 2010)

"The world-changing ideas of the near future might not come from settled, industrialized countries, or even from 10-ton economic gorilla China, argues Salkowitz, but from the developing world. Their populations are extremely young, driven to improve their lives, and have unprecedented access to and familiarity with technology." (CIO Magazine, July 13, 2010)

"Three forces are reshaping the world of the 21st century: youth, ICT and entrepreneurship," says Rob Salkowitz in Young World Rising. While he believes these intertwined forces will have some impact in the Western world, he expects them to completely remake business in less developed nations with populations that skew toward youth, including India, Vietnam, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Mexico and Columbia. Tech-savvy twenty-something's with mobile devices in hand will figure out ways to serve base-of-the pyramid markets, he says-and then scale their operations globally to rewrite the rules of business." (BizEd, July/August 2010)