I believe that being Entrepreneur is an American dream; who would not want to choose their own hours and have a successful business that they could leave behind as a legacy? I also believe that they are very few people that have the skills and qualities to be successful at achieving entrepreneurship; this is partly due to many Entrepreneurs lacking the skills to build around their vision. I thinks that’s why some people believe that entrepreneurs are born and not made, for it is indicated in our assigned reading Entrepreneurship 8th Edition, that the working definition of acquiring and maintain Entrepreneurship is described as ““Entrepreneurship being in the process of creating something new with value by devoting the necessary time and effort; assuming the accompanying financial, psychic, and social risks and un- certainties; and receiving the resulting rewards of monetary and personal satisfaction.” (Hirsch Robert D., 2009).
I consider myself to have been a born entrepreneur but lack the skills to follow through with the focus, time, energy, creative and the necessary resources. As one can tell I began my journey naive thinking the vision and effort was enough to reach the American Dream. Another major lesson I quickly learned that I worked harder and committed longer hours for myself then I had, when working on a job. This was totally opposite of what I envision Entrepreneurship to be. Never the less, it was all an experience that I found rewarding and stressful for a short period of time.
When finding a successful entrepreneur to write about, I wanted to choose someone that I could possible identify with. The person I found in Pro quest to be most interesting was a female name Lisa Price....
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...ccess. Lisa found a need and the community and stuck by it.
The most important part of this Bio that I would like to take with me and give to others is that empowerment comes from within through confidence, faith , strength , creativity and resources.
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Many people dream of becoming entrepreneurs someday. But it made me realize that there other factors that needs to be taken into consideration. We need to ask ourselves are we ready to take the challenge to the outside world. Not everyone have the vision, innovation and creativity to become an entrepreneur. The individual must have a positive attitude and accept the responsibility, have discipline to meet their goals, and take action when the opportunity presents itself. Many prefer a job security and rely on a weekly paycheck, while entrepreneurs will take risks and doesn 't have that luxury to know the amount of their income.
Most successful entrepreneurs are have a passion for their product or service as well as a desire to solve a problem and make life easier, better, cheaper (10 Qualities of successful entrepreneurs, 2010). Their desire to be an entrepreneur is mostly due to in internal factor rather than an external such as money.
Predominantly we set ourselves up for failure the moment we stop believing in our own potential, and the aspirations to follow our dreams. The idea of failure is so daunting, that we often create excuses to avoid failure, or find ourselves hesitating to focus on our desired dreams. Most people that do not reach their dream, it is not because of failure. But because most people don't fully live their dream because they give up.
Business involved by two or more members of the family and is owned within the family is the simplest way to define family business. In this type of business the positions in the company is filled according the family blood. The founder of the business is usually the skull of the company, the rest of the positions are taken place by the family member which are usually higher positions where else other positions are filled by non family members.
Being an entrepreneur, is advanced citizenship, you have to want it real bad. Entrepreneur is not entitlement. Being an entrepreneur is a life commitment. Like in the movie Wall Street, a famous line was "You can 't be a little bit pregnant." The fact is you can 't be an on again, off again entrepreneur.
Even though the definition of “success” has a very nuanced meaning depending on its culture and context, highly successful people typically exhibit the same universal characteristics. For despite common belief, successful people are not affiliated with some exclusive club and it has to do more with attitude than superior I.Q intelligence. Therefore, many people have the ability to learn about how they can be successful and do better than they are now. Due to having the privilege of interacting with successful people on a daily basis, I gradually coined my own theory of success. In addition, interviewing successful college students for the basis of the EPE course project has managed to further support and strengthen my theory. Yet rather than just being applied to an academic setting like a college or school, theses theories can be slightly modified to be applied in other aspects of life as well. It should be worth emphasizing that exhibiting some of these traits are likely good indicators of being a successful person, however there are a lot more not mentioned. For due to their vast variety, it would be extremely difficult to talk about each of them individually. As a result, I have taken the liberty of grouping them into broader categories and have listed them in no particular order.