{"id":2447,"date":"2017-10-02T02:58:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T00:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2021-04-02T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T20:15:46","slug":"sertified-is-the-future-of-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/sertified-is-the-future-of-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"SErtified is the future of entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, I see scores of stories about founders aiming to build the next Facebook or Uber. \u00a0And yet, as ambitious and determined as these founders are, very few will make a meaningful impact on the world. \u00a0Which seems like a shame.
\nHow can we funnel these brilliant minds onto a more philanthropic path?<\/span><\/p>\n

To tell the truth, my company, Upwork, has benefitted from the surge of startups looking to hire talent and build the next tech giant. However, every day I\u2019m exposed to a much larger and even more inspiring population of entrepreneurs: the freelancers who give up traditional employment to strike out on their own.<\/span><\/p>\n

My best days at work are when I get to spend time with these freelance entrepreneurs, people like <\/span>Shari, Joana, Tanya, Alexsey, Mariana and John<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0Their hard work, indefatigable spirit and courage in choosing a different career path inspires me more than any salary could.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just a decade ago, it was hard for these entrepreneurs to even envision a freelance career – the only way to make a respectable living was to go work 9-5 for a corporation. \u00a0But then <\/span>two friends who worked thousands of miles apart got together<\/span><\/a> and created a site that is now enabling more work every day than all but a few multinational corporations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much like the freelancers of a decade ago, entrepreneurs faced only one clear path to establish their success as pioneers: \u00a0founding and leading a commercial company. \u00a0\u00a0SErtified changes this by providing the training and support for a verifiable philanthropic mission enabling a new path for entrepreneurs, a path that I\u2019m convinced will make the world a better place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every week, I see scores of stories about founders aiming to build the next Facebook or Uber. \u00a0And yet, as ambitious and determined as these founders are, very few will make a meaningful impact on the world. \u00a0Which seems like a shame. How can we funnel these brilliant minds onto a more philanthropic path? To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sertified.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}