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BY JEFF BROWN
What It Takes To Be An
Entrepreneur
n What is an entrepreneur?
An entrepreneur is; a person who organizes and manages
a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of
the profit.
Someone who perceives an opportunity and creates an
organization to pursue it or simply someone who is looking
to build a company.
It is important to understand that an entrepreneur
is not necessarily someone that is self-employed (works
for themselves). As more and more people become self-
employed we need to understand what makes people
entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that
there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity
and are able to turn both to their advantage. Victor Kiam
Fostering the
mindset in
your kids
n The Entrepreneurial Idea - The idea is key to
becoming an entrepreneur
An entrepreneurial idea; a specific, new way to satisfy a
need or want, overcome a problem, or meet a challenge.
Every entrepreneur has an idea, a big idea, to do
something different, better or something that other people
aren’t doing.
A key to a successful entrepreneur is to take the idea
and make it work, bring it to market by creating some
excitement.
The idea is the starting point to becoming an entrepre-
neur. You may dream of doing great entrepreneurial things
but it is the idea that will get you started on the path to
entrepreneurship.
n What Does It Take To Be An Entrepreneur
There are key personal characteristics that make people
succeed as entrepreneurs.
Vision: The successful entrepreneur has a clear and
communicable vision of the opportunity his or her business
will create or exploit and is completely dedicated to making
this vision a reality, even when it means taking risks.
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