10 Advantages of Being a Young Entrepreneur
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Starting your own business and being an entrepreneur is a wonderful experience at any age. However, I often find young people shying away from starting their own businesses because they think they lack the experience required. Although experience helps, being young still does not limit your capacity to be happy and successful in business. I have been involved in various entrepreneurial ventures since I was 13 and can say that running your own business is a wonderful experience. Here are 10
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By creating a business that is in alignment with your own sense of inner purpose, you can live your life completely congruently. Instead of your work being something you do to meet your basic survival needs, it can be something you love and an outlet for self-expression and contribution.
4. Failure is not a big deal
The primary obstacle to starting a business for many people is the fear of failure. People are afraid of what it would mean to their financial if the business flopped. This is especially true if they have a family to support. The risks associated with entrepreneurship and the prospects of financial failure are too much for many to start their own business. Most people can handle letting themselves down but the idea of letting people they care about down is simply too much.
However, as a young person who has responsibility only to yourself, the fear of letting other people down who are counting on you does not come into effect. Even if the business turned out to be a total flop, the only thing wasted would be your own time and money. At the same time, however, you would have been able to experience the tremendous growth associated with becoming an entrepreneur.
So as a young entrepreneur, the downside is your business fails and you are left in a poor financial situation.
First of all, why would you want to start a business in the first place? Most people think that the reason for starting your own business is so that you can make a lot of money and retire rich. This is a great idea but it is not the real reason that people take the risks of entrepreneurship.
The purpose of this essay is to critically discuss 2 debate topics using both opposing sides, for and against, in order to create an academic argument for each topic. Debate 1 will argue the points of “Starting a small business is too risky or can anyone do it?” will be supported with references of journals and articles. Debate 2 will analyse the for and against argument for the topic of “To fail to plan is to plan to fail: you must plan” where academic articles will be used to back up each point made to for each side of the debate. Business has been a foundation in society for centuries but only within the past 10 years has the UK government promoted SME’s (small and medium enterprises) and encouraged the public to invest in creating a business with incentive grants and education programmes such as Business gateway and the hatchery.
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." -Milton Berle There is rarely an opportunity given to to you in life. Most of the time you create the opportunity for your self. I as a student of Youth Entrepreneur, I have realized nothing is given to you. When creating a business that you will own, you will be on your own, and will need to find help or research how to do it.
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