Why Did I Want To Become An Entrepreneur?

Introduction

I would like to write an article for my final project of Introduction to Economics on semester 2. In this article, I want to explain to you about Entrepreneur.

Content

First, I want to tell you where the word entrepreneur come from. The word entrepreneur come from the French words entre, meaning ‘’between’’ and prendre, meaning ‘’ to take’’. This word is used to describe people who ‘’take on the risk’’ between buyers and sellers or someone who starting a new business (theory from Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures Fourth Edition by Bruce R. Barringer and R. Duane Ireland. Page: 32).

Entrepreneur is someone who provide service or goods to other people with purpose to get some profit. They find the resources

Why did I want to become an entrepreneur? There are so many benefits if we become an entrepreneur. By become an entrepreneur we can help the society by reducing the unemployment and giving job opportunities to other people. It’s hard to get a job these day because there are so many people who looking for a job and the job field are limited. The other benefits by become an entrepreneur are we can be the boss in our own business/company. Nobody can fire us. We can organize the company. We have more freedom, we can decide when to work or holiday, when to go to office or available for meeting, we will have more time for family. We can work wherever we want (in home or in office). We can choose people to work with. If we working with the right people, our working relationship will be good and our business will be success. We also can choose the services or product that we want to sell/we can do what we like to do. We can’t do this if we working in an organization because we are not the owner and we must obey the rules of the organization. But there are also many advantages by being an entrepreneur. If our business is successful, we can be richer than a regular employee. But there are also many disadvantages by become an entrepreneur. The disadvantages are we have no regular salary because we must get the money by ourselves, maybe there are so many competitors that have the same business like us so we must make a difference between competitor’s business by being creative and innovative to build a solid customer base and make our business profitable.

We also must be responsible for the success or failure of the business. Then we must decide the business strategy, controlling and check the work of the employees if they working properly or not. As the entrepreneur we must be brave to take the risk of the business and be able to see the opportunities. Opportunity can come from many sources. This is how entrepreneurs identifying