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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is intangible and is an attitude more often than a profession resting on vision, strong beliefs in one’s ideas, hunger to make things happen and a strong desire to achieve. It can be described as the process of creating an innovative and achievable business idea or even identifying an existing one and taking risks, more importantly, spending resources to organize the ideas into a forceful plan of action that sees the light of day.

Job Prospects

Identify a business idea or opportunity that fills a gap in the market and following it up by drawing and executing a rational plan of action is Entrepreneurship in a nutshell. It is a common misconception that a lot of money is required to begin a business venture. The fact is that very often a ‘brilliant idea’ meticulously executed succeeds with little investment compared to mundane ones that exhaust resources. The first thing that working professionals making the switch to Entrepreneurship need to assess is whether they can stop depending emotionally and financially on their monthly salaries. They should plan in advance for the initial stage, when work and profits may take some time to grow inspire of investments, by increasing their saving. To minimize risks, they should develop in advance a financially sound plan of action for their enterprise. This scrupulously worked out plan must highlight amount (saving, a bank loan, family, friends or investors), initial investments, expenditures, expected income and goals to be achieved.

Attributes

What is important, are personality traits like creativity, being aware of one’s strengths and weaknesses, leadership quality, risk taking ability, a thirst and willingness to upgrade skills, decisiveness, will power, self discipline and knowledge of finances.

In addition, the ability to overcome limitations, competitiveness, planning and organizing skills, personal drive and the temperament to work long hours, prove helpful.

Eligibility

While no formal qualifications are required to succeed here, a good academic background and grooming, communication skills, innovation and the ability to stand out always helps.

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