Dear Google,
So your average working entrepreneur...
The image below is what you get when you Google "statistically the average UK entrepreneur is a 36-year-old white male working in the construction industry"
Doesn't exactly add up does it?
Many people would say that managers and leaders are born, you either have the skills or you don't. The flip side to that argument is that people will argue that a manager can be trained in the skills required. So are entrepreneurs the same? Are you born or an entrepreneur? Or can you be taught how to be one?
To be an entrepreneur, you might need to have the skills listed here in Entrepreneur DNA So what do you need?
- Tenacity
- Street Smart
- Ability to Pivot
- Resilience
- Inspiration
- Perspiration
- Willingness to accept risk
- Attention to detail
- Competitiveness
- Decisiveness
- Domain Experience
- Integrity
Listing the skills needed is a good starting point...but surely to be an entrepreneur you need well an idea. An ability to see an opportunity and capitalise on it. Is it all about making money?...what about social enterprise? and would you need all of the listed skills to generate ideas? or could generate a hundred new ideas a month but lack the skills to take them forward.
The topic I feel is vast, and the definitions are many.
So, you have an idea, what next?
Any idea would need to be thrashed out in a Business Plan, to assess its viability and potential to make hard cold cash. As a student I have had some experience in producing business plans and was a runner up in an Enterprise Competition with my idea for a Social Enterprise- a not for profit organisation. Does that make me a typical entrepreneur or a student entrepreneur? The issue of enterprise and student engagement in enterprise is one which is gaining momentum in universities. What though does it all mean? and what are the resources available for business start ups?
Through my blog I aim to answer the questions posed around entrepreneurship and explore the resources that are available to help turn business ideas into reality.
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