Entrepreneurship

In the early days of the web we heard a lot about democratization. The web was supposed to allow enterprising people to compete with the big guys by cutting out the middle people. This morning I heard about two enterprising groups who took that notion to heart.

#1 At one point then Governor Wilson said, to celebrate the diversity of California's population "The typical California lunch is a couple of fish tacos with a side of Kimchee." It turns out all that talk was true. Mark Manguera, the founder of Kogi and his wife Caroline and their partners Roy Choi and Alice Shin started with the idea of a taco truck (ubiquitous in LA) that would serve tacos with a Korean flair. They added images to Flickr and added themselves to Twitter and off they went. Can't wait to get to LA and find them. From what the reviews say, the food is excellent. When will Kogi move to Sacramento?

#2 - A Salt Lake entrepreneur has created a service called House Tending to allow foreclosed homes to have a tenant who will keep the place up. The tenants pay a small monthly rental but the homeowner or the bank pays nothing. The people in the house agree to do things like lawns to make sure the place looks lived in.

Both ideas show the creative spirit of the American people is not gone at all.