Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs create opportunities for themselves, are risk takers, innovative, creative, always favor challenges, and are highly optimistic. These people have the skills and are courageous and daring enough to take good new ideas to market and make the right decisions to make the idea profitable. So for us, musicians, being an entrepreneur thinker is very important for us in order to make a living. There are so many careers in music out there for us, for example, writing and production…

How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company is the debut novel of author Varun Agarwal. He is one of the young and budding Indian entrepreneurs. This novel is a non-fiction memoir of Varun’s experience and struggles he had while founding his own start-up called Alma Mater, way back in 2009. Varun in the beginning of the book itself warns the readers that he is no writer but is a storyteller and truly through the course of the book proves that he is a brilliant one. This book…

Rags to Riches: How To Become a Successful Entrepreneur A Guide by Ashok Sharma So, you want to be an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurship takes the most skill of any job there is in this entire world. Go ahead and try to think of jobs that require more skill than that of being an entrepreneur. You may think of a brain surgeon, but that requires knowledge more than skill. “What about a nuclear engineer?,” you may ask. The problem with that is that while it is a hard job, it does not match the skill…

An Explanation of Why the individual is considered an Entrepreneur According Merriam-Webster an entrepreneur is a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money. (Merriam-Webster 2015) The entrepreneur that I chose to profile certainly fit this definition. He’s 37 year old Herbert Doucet. He was born in Opelousas Louisiana and grew up in Palmetto Louisiana. He is known to his friends as Mr. Herb. Mr. Herb is a family man. His wife’s name is Cheritha Docuet and…

Everyday, men and women are creating ideas to better our world. When they sell these ideas, and make a profit off of them, they are titled entrepreneurs. This unit was created to show that students could be entrepreneurs as well. The students are actually creating a product that will be used in their school. They will be continuing their efforts throughout the year to make it a successful proposition. Their propositions start as a Shark Tank proposal which they practice in front of their…

recognition and development process. Opportunity recognition is ideas, in which business owners determine prescriptive action, in order to establish new venture based on the opportunities that they identify. Bygrave and Hofer (1991) describe an entrepreneur as a person who is able to identify opportunity and develop a business to follow that idea. Indeed, Shane and Venkataraman (2000) claimed that the finding, analysing, and development of opportunities is a determining characteristic of the…

youngsters have taken it upon themselves to create jobs. They found opportunities and seized them at the right time. The result - India now has a growing number of youngsters who wish to be independent in their career choices - become entrepreneurs. Listed below are 10 entrepreneurs who have successfully changed the Indian perspective. 1. Farrhad Acidwala - He is the founder…

Drew Houston, DROPBOX INTRODUCTION Andrew W. Houston, or Drew Houston, who was born in 1983 in Massachusetts, is an American entrepreneur best known as the Dropbox co-founder and CEO. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he met Arash Ferdowsi, who would later be the co-founder of Dropbox, and graduated with a Degree in Computer Science. Formerly worked in other several projects such as Hubspo, Bit9, and Accolade, he finally started Dropbox in January 2007 (Nomes, 2013).…

entrepreneurship in the development and growth of a country, namely: the role of an entrepreneur, the relationship between entrepreneurship and development. (users.ipfw.edu, 2007) The Importance of entrepreneurship in economic development and growth can be seen with regards to the role of an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is important in an economy as it bring innovation to the development and growth of a country. Entrepreneurs find a need for a particular good or service in the market and…

believed that if you stick with your company, and almost reinvent the ways it operates, you could have a new company within your old company. This does not need to be on such a large scale found in RMS; it can apply to smaller startups. A young entrepreneur should not be striving to sell out their company. Instead, they should feel purpose within it and put all of their effort into it to make it grow to its biggest…