We are all born an entrepreneur. No! Not what you think. I am not against the ideology of entrepreneurs are made rather than born. But going down the history lane, the era in which everyone produces what to eat, drink, use, etc. And the one you can’t produce, you will be in search of someone who has it and exchange what you have for it. Now you remember the barter system of trading. This means everyone back then has to engage in one venture, craft, and production of something or the other. No one is expecting the miracle of consuming without producing.
We are born an entrepreneur; it is the act of searching for an easier life that turns our entrepreneurship mindset into a lazy one. In the days of old, everyone is proud of having his farm, no one is ready to have the stigma called a slave.
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The belief then was that it is only slaves that are expected to till in another man’s farm for money or food and are strictly reserved for strangers, not citizens, and no slave can have anything more than the owner. But today reverse is the case. Some believe the entrepreneurial traits are reserve for some set of people, some even think an entrepreneur is a second option for a job opportunity and many more believe that is against entrepreneurship in every one of us; so unfortunate.
We all know what the above scenario means; those who are ready to create jobs are more than those in search of jobs. No one is ready to lose his dignity and freedom cheaply, they protect it jealously. But what happens nowadays, we take pride in selling our dignity and freedom cheaply.
In another way round, even workers might be the lower class citizen, but no one is ready to let go of his hard-working staff as a result of scarcity, they guide it jealously with the competition of who pays the highest rate compared to what we have today in which your smartness and hard-working does not guarantee you for what your sweat worth, rather a threat of layoff that you are not ready to hear which subject you to agreed on rate below your effort. After all, we’ve all know that when supply is more than demand, the rate goes down.
Today, except for the hypocrite, we all know that it is the laziness and the disease of instant gratification in us that bring upon us the suffering in the world. The world of the entrepreneur is that of delayed gratification, but as the saying goes “we are in the jet age” in which the fastest is the best, slow and steady is no more the song, it’s all about the fast and furious.
Let us wake up and awaken the entrepreneurial in every one of us. We all know we have the opportunity to get it done from a previous age. Fine! We might not be able to go back to the barter system of trade but instead a partnership that makes things work perfectly when there are more job givers than seekers. And now that money as an invention is available on like the barter era, we can easily exchange and get what we cannot produce on our own from the other guy in the next door producing it.
Entrepreneurship is Risky
I have been looking at this issue from a broad or let me say macro perspective rather than the micro (individual) point of few. Comparing the gain of an entrepreneur to the risk is like comparing the stress of driving to walking a long distance. Which one will you choose, driving or walking? No doubt I know you are questioning me. Are you insane? Maybe not, but I advise you to check yourself if one of your excuses for not going into entrepreneurship is that the risk of going into entrepreneurship is too much, I can’t bear that.
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I don’t have the Resources
One other alibi that is also costing you what belongs to you as a born entrepreneur is that of financial resources (Capital). The question is, is it the resources needed to become an entrepreneur? Not; the truth is that we need money to start and run business, but about 95% of people who consider it first, do fail, which correspond with the research that says 95% of every startup failed in the first five years and out of the remaining 5% another 95% failed in the next five years.
Taken possession of the entrepreneur in you only required utilization of natural resources in form of talent, passion, ideas, skills experience, etc naturally deposited in us. These natural resources if utilizing will bring in the financial resources for full commercialization.
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I need to work to raise startup capital for my business, says Henry. I question him further; what business are you interested in going into? He said he is interested in going into the eatery business; I chuckle, do you know why? Here is Henry interested in the eatery business but working in the textile industry. But instead of concluding, I went further to ask, do you have any training or work experience in the industry: he said no. But instead of discouraging him, I told him to quit his job and start working to learn rather than working to earn.
Yes! If your case is like that of Henry who believes in saving some money to start a business by working, then you can use one stone to kill two birds; to raise start-up capital but most especially to gain valuable experience to commence your business in the future by working for a company operating in the business you are interested in. One reason to back this up is that it is easy to transfer experience within the same industry compare to the cross-industry.
There are lots of traits required to be a successful entrepreneur, but first, awaken your entrepreneurial mindset, and later you can learn any of the skills or traits you don’t have, which is the reason why they said entrepreneurs are made rather than born.
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