Video Review: Entrepreneurs can change the world

(Click here is you can’t see the video above)

Today’s review is going to be short.The above video was cre­ated by a small firm (Grasshoper) to remind every­one that with tur­bu­lence comes oppor­tu­nity; that uncer­tain times push us to dis­cover new ways of doing things. I found the  mes­sages in this video a won­der­ful reminder that ideas + action = suc­cess. It was a mod­ern reminder of the Law of Action.

I was also drawn to this video because of my fas­ci­na­tion with Cre­ative Com­mons licens­ing. As you would know, a lot of my work is released under this licensin (see links at the bot­tom for some exam­ples), so when I read this arti­cle about how Ogilvy & Math­ers used sim­i­lar music and mes­sage to cre­ate an ad for Amer­i­can Express, I had mixed feel­ings.  On the one hand, the Amex ad was not a direct ripoff from the above video; yet it was clearly inspired by it, and there is enough evi­dence to demon­strate that the O&M’s cre­ative team heav­ily bor­rowedi from this inpira­tional video. At the end of the day, one has to answer the ques­tion of whether grasshoper deserved at least attri­bu­tion for the idea, and whether there is enough in com­mon in these 2 artis­tic exe­cu­tions to war­rant a notice for copy­right vio­la­tion. What do you think? Share your thoughts with us in the com­ments sec­tion below.

Before I go, I would like to high­light some of the mes­sages that res­onated most with me from this video:

• As an entre­pre­neur, risk isn’t the reward; the reward is chang­ing people’s lives, fuel­ing world, and mak­ing a bet­ter world
• Entre­pre­neurs are every­where, and can be any­one… even YOU.
• Remem­ber when you were a kid (when every­thing was within your reach) and then say to your­self qui­etly but with deter­mi­na­tion: IT STILL IS.

If you liked this arti­cle, check some of our pre­vi­ous video reviews below:

• Jan­u­ary : Ben­jamin Zan­der at TED (video) (review)
• Feb­ru­ary: Story of Stuff (video) (review) (web site)
• March: Feel like the Incred­i­ble Hulk with Tim Fer­ris (video) (review) (web site)
• April: Pike Place Mar­ket video about the Fish! Phi­los­o­phy (video) (review)
• May: Build­ing a great team — a trib­ute to Herb Brooks (video) (review)
• June: Reflec­tions of a Crazy Colom­bian Video Blog # 1 — A review of AMPlify 2009 (video) (review)

Links to some of the works by The crazy Colom­bian released under a Cre­ative Com­mons license:

• Zen and the art of pho­to­graphic story-telling (Online) (Print)
• The crazy Colombian’s man­i­festo (Online) (Print)

Tagged as: Change the world, entrepreneurs, Ogilvy & Mathers, Video