What is entrepreneurship?
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The greatest and rarest resource on earth.  The ability to invest all your money and time on uninsured future profits.  Meaning just because you start a business, doesn't mean you are guaranteed anything.  An owner has to have so many talents it is rare to see a start up business thrive over the long run.  \n\nFirst they need an idea or nitch in an existing market.\n\nSecond they have to raise capital to buy a building and employees and office supplies and ...\n\nThird they need the ability to do every job required in the business or the ability to find qualified people to fill the roles.\n\nFinally they need the forethought to expand or contract their business to maximize profits. \n\nWithout all these and more their business will fail.
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business teaches accounting, finance, the basic principals of commerce... entreprenueral probably teaches about risk taking, starting businesses, licensing, inventing, etc...\n\nso one is more fundamental/administrative, and the other is more creative/free flowing...
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Research, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\n* Entrepreneurial Finance: For New and Emerging Businesses by James McNeill Stancill\n* The Business Startup Checklist and Planning Guide: Seize Your Entrepreneurial Dreams! by Stephanie Chandler\n* How to Really Start Your Own Business, Fourth Edition by David E. Gumpert\n* How to Really Create a Successful Business Plan: Step-by-Step Guide by David E. Gumpert\n* What No One Ever Tells You about Starting Your Own Business: Real-Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs (What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business) by Jan Norman \n* Business Start-Up Kit by Steven D. Strauss \n* Start Your Own Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up) by Rieva Lesonsky\n\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Only business with no startup charges is consulting; selling your time and mind.  You'll probably eventually want to advertise, but to start with, just sell yourself.
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It must be very good. Mainly if you are in administration college. After all, why are you in college? Isnt it to own money? So, why not start it right now? \n\nThe only problem is that to start a business, you need money... thing that you usually dont have on college
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You can find all your answers here:\nhttp://www.sba.gov/starting_business/startup/guide.html
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Entrepreneurship is hard because it involves forecasting the demands of consumers. Consumer demands can change on a whim, and nobody knows EXACTLY what the future holds. \n\nThose entrepreneurs who forecast correctly, and satisfy consumer demands in the best and most efficient manner, earn a profit. \n\nThose who are slow to anticipate, or don't satisfy consumer demands at all, suffer losses.\n\nFor a brief (yet informative) reading on the relationship between entrepreneurs and consumers, check out the following link from the Mises Institute:\n\nhttp://www.mises.org/humanaction/chap15sec4.asp
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I think the most important things in starting a business are dedication, passion, organization & understanding.\n\nDedication -- You'll be putting in a lot of hours & should be prepared for that.\n\nPassion -- You should be putting all that time into something that really excites you.\n\nOrganization -- To succeed in anything, organizational skills are a must.\n\nUnderstanding -- You'll have successes & failures throughout your business career but if you understand that & are prepared for those proverbial bumps in the road, things will go much smoother.
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Have you ever consider starting your own biz?\nDid it ever occur to you that may be you are bored becoz you are born to be an entrepreneur? An entrepreneur in heart will definitely be bored to do office job like you mentioned.\n\nStart small, this could be your beginning of a brighter future.\nIf you want it bad enough you will make it!
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Hello. I would suggest anything that interests you would be a good place to start looking.  I have put some links below to give you a head start.  Look up and read about what others have done.  It's all about balance and also how much money you have to start a business venture.\n\nGood Luck
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what's your business about? Give details
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A business is an organisation that provides a service with the aim of making money.\n\nI don't think you'll find an actual figure for the number of businesses in the world.
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To start a business, terminate a life.\n\nSeriously. :-)\n\nWhat I mean is, a first-time entrepreneur should switch totally from being an employee (often being told what to do) to a business owner, whose first thought when he/she wakes up in the morning is: What is the work today and who do I delegate it to?\n\nIn other words, an employee looks for work. A business owner looks for workers.\n\nThat's what I mean by "terminate a life." Abandon your previous life as an employee. Embrace change and access a higher consciousness. Be 50 times sharper than you were in your previous life.\n\nThis is the essence of capitalism: hire labour, pay them a fixed rate, while increasing your revenues steadily. (The growing difference between the fixed salary mass and the GROWING revenues, is called the profit rate -- a marvelous concept).\n\nFrom my experience coaching entrepreneurs, I find that many have not switched their mindset from sheep to tiger, sorry, I meant employee to business owner.\n\nWithout this first step of switching to a higher-level mentality and consciousness, the new venture will not succeed.\n\nGood luck!
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Check out the website below. They are a non profit organization that help people in different countries (other than America) start businesses. You can contact them via email and ask if they have help in your country.  You can also read stories of other people they have helped.\n\nGood Luck
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There's a lot of factors affecting the business\n\nThe Business owner/Entrepreneur\n\n- how much does the entrepreneur knows about the industry and the business\n- how is the fit between the business and the entrepreneur\n- how open and responsive is the entrepreneur to the opportunities around\n- how does the entrepreneur react when threats emerges\n- what is the personality of the entrepreneur and how does this contribute or distract from business relationships including employees\n\nBusiness model\n\n- how sound is the business model\n- how diversified is the revenue source\n- is there a demand for the product\n- is the business model sustainable\n\nBusiness Environment\n\n- how business friendly are the taxes\n- what is the overall macroeconomic condition \n- what is the condition of the local economy\n- what are the business regulations governing the industry and how restrictive are these\n- what are the advances in technology and how is the business owner adapting these changes\n- level of competition, not only domestically but internationally\n\nHere are some articles that talks of the impact of government on businesses:\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0106/ijee/strauss.htm\nhttp://rru.worldbank.org/PapersLinks/Benchmarking-Business-Environment/\nhttp://www.house.gov/smbiz/democrats/Reports/SBI3Q2005.pdf
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if you are going to start your own business then know you just need to learn how to run it effectively.  Also just know that more than half all small business fail. But pretty much every other career needs at least a college  degree to get in.  You you can not even get most jobs with out a GED or high school diploma
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Entrepreneurs tend to be very intelligent and highly skilled. There are two types of entrepreneurs - the self employed person and the small owner.  \n\nThere are many ways to be self-employed: perhaps you are a self-employed professional such as a doctor, a  consultant, or a builder. Your professional pride is based on your excellence - therefore you tend to keep your skills updated and work hard to provide satisfaction to your patients or clients.  \n\nThe small business owner is also an entrepreneur. They are usually proud of their accomplishments, optimistic, and continually fighting against the reality that only a small number of  businesses succeed over time.