According to Inc.com, entrepreneurs are on their way to tweeting themselves to an official day in their honor.
At least that’s the hope of a Twitter petition launched to persuade President Obama to declare March 20, 2011 the first annual National Entrepreneurs’ Day.
David Hauser and Siamak Taghaddos, co-founders of Needham, Massachusetts-based Grasshopper, a virtual phone system for entrepreneurs, started the petition, with the goal of obtaining 1,000,000 signatures.
Three days into the effort, they’ve rallied more than 1,000 Twitter users to sign it, including a number of heavy hitters like Inc. columnist Jason Fried, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, and former New Hampshire governor and entrepreneur Craig Benson.
Taghaddos explained that as he was recently driving to work one day and listening to experts on the news debate about the state of the economy, he realized that “the only people who were going to turn the economy around and really create jobs were entrepreneurs.”
He wondered why he had never heard of a national day in honor of the contributions of individual entrepreneurs, in the vein of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Even China has a National Entrepreneurs’ Day, he said.
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