The Marriage of Entrepreneurs and Opportunities
The way of an entrepreneur is a hard one, none without a purpose dare venture on such a quest.
The fact remains vividly clear to all that the main reason anyone behind any or most entrepreneurial setup is to provide some form of product or service to a particular group of people out there demanding for it, to think otherwise is naïve.
The most basic question for an aspiring entrepreneur should be; how may I be of help? The mistake most people make is trying to bump into a budding market without watching the trends and studying the factors that cause positive results.
Soon enough things get dry again and they are left with regrets.
Trends change.
So why struggle at something you'll never be good at? Entrepreneurs are simply those people who dare to take risk, to be different.
They are the people who determine the trends.
That's what we like about them.
They give us the reason to believe that everything is possible, because it really is.
Play to your strength and not your weakness.
The world respects creativity, and creativity can only come through the channel of your passion.
We all go the extra mile for the things we are passionate about.
It's not a chore to us.
It comes naturally.
Here's my opinion for a good start for aspiring entrepreneurs; start with the things you're passionate about.
It might be programming, events management etc.
whatever it is start your thought process from there.
It's much easier to build a business around something you're passionate about than what you're not.
Do not look too far.
The next step is to check the market's demand for what you have to offer, study the market and your competitors if there are any.
Strategize; your unique selling point is what will help you stand out of the crowd.
Looks into the future, probably 2 - 5yrs and project your business' future (don't neglect the necessary trainings that will bring your projections to reality).
To buttress the point above let's learn a little lesson from history.
Would you agree with me if I said opportunity gives each and every one of us a fair chance? Here's a story that already history to buttress the point.
Bill Gates was the wealthiest person in the world for over a decade, even before the dot-com era he was worth $90 billion.
Truth, Bill took advantage of the opportunities that came his way, but was he the only that had that opportunity? No.
Gary Kildall had that same opportunity to write history but failed to see opportunity for what it was.
Gary Kildall wrote the first software operating system for a personal computer, one he called CP/M.
during that period IBM was looking into developing personal computers, a vast up-and-coming market at the time.
Gary Kildall was approached, to see if his CP/M system could be used on IBM computers.
A meeting was scheduled to close the deal and make the CP/M the operating system for IBM computers, but according to Silicon Valley sources Gary Kildall didn't show up for that meeting, he chose to go flying in his new airplane.
At that time Bill Gates and Paul Allen of Microsoft had created an operating system called MS-DOS at that time.
Bill Gates was approached by IBM, and he signed the contract that made MS-DOS the operating system for over 90% of the computers in the world.
The rest is history.
On a daily basis a lot of us are given the opportunity to re-write history for us and the people around us, but recognizing it when it shows up is up to us.
The fact remains vividly clear to all that the main reason anyone behind any or most entrepreneurial setup is to provide some form of product or service to a particular group of people out there demanding for it, to think otherwise is naïve.
The most basic question for an aspiring entrepreneur should be; how may I be of help? The mistake most people make is trying to bump into a budding market without watching the trends and studying the factors that cause positive results.
Soon enough things get dry again and they are left with regrets.
Trends change.
So why struggle at something you'll never be good at? Entrepreneurs are simply those people who dare to take risk, to be different.
They are the people who determine the trends.
That's what we like about them.
They give us the reason to believe that everything is possible, because it really is.
Play to your strength and not your weakness.
The world respects creativity, and creativity can only come through the channel of your passion.
We all go the extra mile for the things we are passionate about.
It's not a chore to us.
It comes naturally.
Here's my opinion for a good start for aspiring entrepreneurs; start with the things you're passionate about.
It might be programming, events management etc.
whatever it is start your thought process from there.
It's much easier to build a business around something you're passionate about than what you're not.
Do not look too far.
The next step is to check the market's demand for what you have to offer, study the market and your competitors if there are any.
Strategize; your unique selling point is what will help you stand out of the crowd.
Looks into the future, probably 2 - 5yrs and project your business' future (don't neglect the necessary trainings that will bring your projections to reality).
To buttress the point above let's learn a little lesson from history.
Would you agree with me if I said opportunity gives each and every one of us a fair chance? Here's a story that already history to buttress the point.
Bill Gates was the wealthiest person in the world for over a decade, even before the dot-com era he was worth $90 billion.
Truth, Bill took advantage of the opportunities that came his way, but was he the only that had that opportunity? No.
Gary Kildall had that same opportunity to write history but failed to see opportunity for what it was.
Gary Kildall wrote the first software operating system for a personal computer, one he called CP/M.
during that period IBM was looking into developing personal computers, a vast up-and-coming market at the time.
Gary Kildall was approached, to see if his CP/M system could be used on IBM computers.
A meeting was scheduled to close the deal and make the CP/M the operating system for IBM computers, but according to Silicon Valley sources Gary Kildall didn't show up for that meeting, he chose to go flying in his new airplane.
At that time Bill Gates and Paul Allen of Microsoft had created an operating system called MS-DOS at that time.
Bill Gates was approached by IBM, and he signed the contract that made MS-DOS the operating system for over 90% of the computers in the world.
The rest is history.
On a daily basis a lot of us are given the opportunity to re-write history for us and the people around us, but recognizing it when it shows up is up to us.
