ENTREPRENEURSHIP : An Ocean of Opportunities

“Entrepreneurship”, a word that fascinates almost half the portion of the young crowd around the world today, owing to its capacity to reshape economies and industries world wide. “Necessity is the mother of Invention”, as rightly said, can be considered as the major vision behind the overwhelming growth of entrepreneurship. Being a hot topic around the globe, entrepreneurship aims at studying the needs of the society, changing the need into a value added entity, garnishing it with innovation and  creativity, to transform it into something that people would be ready to pay for. 

Entrepreneurship is the need of the society today and in the days to come. It does not simply imply being able to start and manage your own  business, but it also helps the economy in many ways. It would help create larger opportunities for employment, support the country’s economy and also enhance the standard of living of the people. Even though  it has a bunch of influential benefits, entrepreneurship comes with its own ups and downs. It is not always easy to plot the needs of the society, manage the existing market and make your own firm stand in this vast world, being prepared for hurdles in  the future and then apart from everything, plan profits for yourself. It eventually needs a detailed observation, a planned and a hopeful mind, and some leadership qualities. Therefore, entrepreneurship is a sweet apple pie with a base of hopeful personality, icing of passion and garnished with knowledge. 

There has been an immense discussion whether these entrepreneurs are made or born? Someone who has a family business would simply learn from it and cultivate himself as an entrepreneur. On the other hand, someone who is a newbie to this world, but has all the apple cake ingredients can successfully qualify himself as an entrepreneur. What should matter for us now is how can we support the upliftment of these entrepreneurs, how can we motivate more crowd towards this revolutionary movement, how can we plan  educational sessions for the youngsters, so that someone who really aspires to be one of the entrepreneur, can get a chance to live his dreams. Government and universities should take efforts to help the students understand the relationship between entrepreneurship and our economic development which would in turn create a huge economic and social impact for the country. And then the bottom line is, more and more youngbies would get a chance to taste the sweet apple pie!!!

A perception that entrepreneurs are billionaires, drives the major attraction for all to opt for business and entrepreneurship. Is it false? No, it isn’t. Not all have become billionaires, but yes the ones who have achieved it, have not made it in a single night. What made them different?  They created value for themselves and their products. They have stretched their abilities, their superskills, their knowledge to an extent where it has started earning profits in return. How would an entrepreneur’s worlds be different from a corporate one? Corporate life is comfortable and easy-going. In a corporate life, you work for fixed hours a day for which you would earn a fixed benefit. You work for someone, to earn  them profit, and then somehow manage steady earnings for yourself. Corporate life has a steady and a linear growth path. Surely, you would be promoted and increase your earnings. But wait, if someday you feel like trying out something different in your work, would you be able to do it? Not all corporates allow to work according to your own will. But, entrepreneurship does.

What do you earn? Just becoming rich? If you aim at just becoming rich, wait, you should think before you have a step ahead. For setting up a business, you need a value. A value that people would be ready to pay for. Create value for your product and for yourself. When your client realizes your value, you earn money. It is the only reason why only ideas can’t be an instinct to start a business. It needs vision and creativity, to bring it into life. What else you would earn, apart from money? Job security? Oh, you are the job creator now. You would employ people. Can you work from home, or sit in the garden to work? Yes you can. Here you are your own boss. You wish to work just for 3 hours a day, you can (of course after your business is at its peak)!!! Entrepreneurship gives you an enthralling life. Each new day you have new plans. New risks to deal with. New people to meet. New techniques to learn. Even though it requires high on passion and perseverance, it maybe exciting for someone who wants to become his “own boss”. For someone who wants to stretch his abilities and superskills. For someone who wants to climb up mountains of new risks each new day. For someone who wants to learn new stuff, each new day. For someone who wants to create employment opportunities. For someone who doesn’t like an easy going life. 

It takes guts, to do something that the crowd would not aspire to do. What makes you unique, is something that you do, is unique. Do you want to stand out of the crowd? “Entrepreneurship” would surely be an opportunistic ocean for you.

                                   - Ms. Urvi U. Mandge.