The discussion of whether entrepreneurs are born or made is certainly an interesting one. I believe they’re made and I believe anyone can be one. In fact if you have a job you’re already an entrepreneur and probably don’t even know it.
Let’s look at what you had to do in order to get the job you have.
First, you probably attended schooling of some sort, if not a college or technical school at the very least you received a high school degree. From there you filled out applications, had interviews, met someone or were recruited to start working somewhere. Now you may not see that as an entrepreneurial process but look closer.
You had to invest some capital to get started. If high school was as far as you got then the capital invested was your time, if you furthered your education then there was a monetary investment in your entrepreneurial venture. From that point you had to engage in sales. The product you were offering was yourself, your time, talents and more in exchange for compensation. The same as if you were selling a product or service, instead you were selling yourself. After you got that job you had to maintain it, continue to prove your worth, in essence you are acting as after sales “service” in maintaining the product you’ve sold, which is yourself.
Many people associate being an entrepreneur with taking a product or service and creating a company around it. The fact is if you have a job you have the basic fundamentals of being an entrepreneur. The problem is that we’re conditioned from the time we are born that we can all go to school and get a job. Therefore it’s become second nature, just something that is “easy” to accomplish. What if we were conditioned to believe that becoming an entrepreneur was something just as “easy”, if becoming an entrepreneur was the normal path?
What do you think?
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