Entrepreneurs aren’t machines; they are human. Humans make capitalism work. Life’s rush makes us forget that we have entrepreneurs in our midst who do what they can to try and sustain themselves while running their businesses. When entrepreneurs run businesses the right way, this act of entrepreneurship tends to provide sustenance to many others.
Author: Abdul Vasi
Abdul Vasi
Abdul Vasi is a digital strategist with over 24 years of experience helping businesses grow through technology, marketing, and performance-led execution. Before starting this blog, he led a successful digital agency that served well-known brands and individuals across various industries. At AbdulVasi.me, he shares practical insights on travel, business, automobiles, and personal finance, written to simplify complex topics and help readers make smarter, faster decisions. He is also the author of 4 published books on Amazon, including the popular title The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Broadly, we realized that not everyone call be an entrepreneur. Why, you ask? We started off on the true essence of entrepreneur and what some of the most basic requirements happen to be. Being a small business owner, however, isn’t just about a few qualifications or even experience. Instead, it’s about this:
Clay Collins, CEO of LeadPages, laid it out succinctly when asked what the most important for a business owner was: This is how he puts it: 1. Recruiting great people. So, I spend about 25% of my time on recruiting. 2. Setting the vision and communicating the vision, both to the market and to the company. 3. Keeping money in the bank.
Nothing works up our learning as much as listening to others narrate their experiences. If those experiences are entrepreneurial, we have even more reasons to lend our ears. If you have access to iTunes, there’s a world of podcasts that’ll bring the world of entrepreneurs, their respective stories, their out-of-whack journey, and their life.
With so many entrepreneurs sprouting up, the entrepreneurial ecosystem is soon turning out to be a crowded place.
Gaurav Sikka of The Next Web, writes that India’s rise can only be unmatched. From roughly 3,100 registered startups in 2014 to a projected 11,500 by the year 2020, it’s turning out to be even bigger and even more crowded.