Introduction to Entrepreneurship (B183)

This week, my grandmother leave us; she passed away. She was an example of how to become an entrepreneur, she was not the founder of any profit or nonprofit organization, but she left her personal mark in the mind of a big population. What was my grandmother business? My grandmother business was the happiness. She studied nursery, and she learned the necessary skills to care about the health of people, but she had a powerful resource, her most valuable resource was the passion that she had to serve others. How was she a leader? She motivated others to participate in her business. Two weeks ago, she was sick, but she did not want to stay at home, and cry. As she did during her entire life, she got up every morning, and visited the old and disadvantages people in the town, she ministered them individually. Acts like that motivated people around her to become part of the same enterprise: to serve others. She did not die as a rich woman, and she never received a public r

During this year, I have learned that an entrepreneur frequently doesn’t make money in the short term (an employee earns more money), an entrepreneur doesn’t have a lot of free time (an employee has more free time), an entrepreneur need to lead a team work. After read what I have learned, do you still want to be an entrepreneur? An important decision in the life is to choose the correct career, if you are passionate with the idea of run a new venture, do it! But if you feel a desire of become an entrepreneur in any industry, I encourage you to do it! If you chose the difficult and excited pathway of run a venture, you must to develop the sense of identify the opportunities. Before find the opportunity, you must to ponder all your ideas, and then check if your ideas follow the following: “Realness” of the opportunity: are there people willing to buy your idea? Durability of the opportunity: are there some barriers that could stop the business? Marshalling resources: are the