One of the most enigmatic kinds of people you can ever meet fall within a group called entrepreneurs. The romance that we have with entrepreneurs stems from the fact that they see opportunities that we pass. If we see the opportunities, they go one on us and create something tangible out of them, that society can benefit from in a real way.
Entrepreneurship is mostly recognized in terms of its monetary output but I would like to suggest that entrepreneurship as a skill can be identified in other areas of life. In my own opinion as long as a person is enterprising and resourceful whether it be in identifying talent, ground breaking writing, doing music deals or connecting people, they are an entrepreneur. In this article however I want to focus on the financial aspect of entrepreneurship.
Let’s start with the obvious. An entrepreneur is a person who identifies and turns opportunities into revenue generating projects. We all know that definition and I won’t go into that. It’s the role of an entrepreneur in the greater scheme of things on planet earth that I want to tackle.
Entrepreneurs are more than just people looking for money. They provide you and me with a place to market and sell our skills for money which we all need to get through life.
If you want to understand the importance of an entrepreneur, ask a person who has got the skills but can’t find anywhere to sell them i.e. someone who is unemployed. By providing a market, entrepreneurs take on the role of a financial parent just like our parents used to provide for us.
Remember the process? Go to school on their salary, then college, then work a little, leave them to start your own family, raise your own kids who will eventually start their own families.
So also to be very simplistic, after we work for a couple of years for someone “looking after us”, why can’t we leave, start our own company, look after others who will in turn look after others and so forth. Imagine what that would do to unemployement, particularly in third world Africa.
Think with me for a moment. Imagine a world where there are no companies to work for regardless of how qualified we are. Can you imagine the chaos that would follow? How would we survive? That, my friend, is just how crucial entrepreneurs are. They play a role in the greater scheme of things; they are at the very core of human perpetuation.
We need them to make it to the next generation.
What I find tragic is that you are probably seated there with a nice office job, probably earning millions per year but it’s all for you. However, you probably have the gift of entrepreneurship in you and if you ventured you would provide another 500 families with a source of income for the foreseeable future. That would translate to 2000 mouths that you could feed if you took the leap! Not bad hey!
No it’s not easy being an entrepreneur but someone has to do it. We need entrepreneurs and I suggest that if we ourselves can’t be entrepreneurs, then let’s give this breed of people the support they need all the way from banks, government and ordinary folks on the street.
igamechanger 