Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Be creative!!!


When it comes to entrepreneurship everyone thinks they are talking about some business and making money. But they are wrong an entrepreneur as Peter F Drucker once said is the person who “always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” It does not matter what field of work they are in everyone and anyone can become an entrepreneur. It can be making money in a regular invention or not making any and by starting your own NGO firm that helps the people of the world out. “At ASU as a matter of fact there are nearly 60 courses that are offered that teach entrepreneurial principles. In those 60 courses we have students from over 50 different majors represented.”

When you look at these numbers they are great and ASU encourages anyone who has an idea to go ahead and start it. By helping to boost it up they have five certificates that they hand out to students that could add up to $300,000 or more. So why wouldn’t you want to start sketching out that idea you have been having in your mind. There are many professors who will help you get it off the ground and also peers who also feel the same about that topic in particular. One famous resource that the staff came up with was the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative. “Which provides student-led teams with the resources, such as office space, funding, training, consulting to start a new venture.”

So never think that you have to be a business person to be an entrepreneur. If you have an idea start planning it out and go with it to your professors and peers and see where you can change and make it better. Michael Gerber once said “The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies.”

Swahili word of the day
unagundua- you create it

1 comment:

Emilio Luna said...

I like how ASU helps promote the idea of an entrepreneur by donating money and space for new ventures.