We frequently hear that such and so is an entrepreneur who has established their own company. When we hear the term entrepreneur, we usually think of someone who has started or is beginning their own business, or in other words, someone who has struck it rich on their own. It is true, as the formal definition of entrepreneurship is “the process of establishing a firm or organization for profit or social purposes.” To distinguish and separate commercial entrepreneurship from social and charity entrepreneurship, we have used the phrases for-profit or social needs. It’s time to define who an entrepreneur is and what they do now that we’ve defined entrepreneurship.
Anyone who comes up with a business plan secures the physical and human resources needed to launch a new enterprise, operationalizes it, and is ultimately accountable for its success or failure is an entrepreneur. An Entrepreneur is distinct from a professional manager in that entrepreneurs either invest their resources or raise external capital and blame failure and reap the rewards in case of success. In contrast, a professional manager does all of the duties and tasks. Risk is therefore inherent to the entrepreneur.
Indicators of successful entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs must be innovators with a game-changing idea or a possible fresh concept that can thrive in a crowded marketplace. The entrepreneur must have an original idea for a new business to attract investors.
Qualities of leadership
Entrepreneurs must also have strong organizational and people management abilities since they must start from scratch, bond with their workers, and work effectively with other stakeholders to ensure the success of their business ventures.
The venture’s entrepreneur must be both a leader who can inspire their personnel and a visionary committed to the cause. The essential talents and qualities that an entrepreneur has to have are leadership, values, team-building skills, and management ability.
Entrepreneurship and the art of creative destruction
We often hear “creative destruction” used to describe how some firms fail while others flourish and retain their market leadership. Creative destruction is the process of replacing inferior products and enterprises with more efficient, inventive, and creative ones.
Companies that are either not producing value or are simply inefficient and trapped in a time warp and unable to read the writing on the wall are displaced by entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas and the necessary skills to succeed. When an entrepreneur begins a new business, they eliminate the old and the inefficient in favour of newer, more innovative ideas.
An entrepreneur is someone willing to take calculated risks.
How can entrepreneurs participate in creative destruction? We’ve spoken about what entrepreneurialism is and what talents they require. Due to the fact they might be victims of creative destruction and the absence of the other qualities, most new ventures fail within their first year of operation. It is only natural to wonder who is to blame for a venture’s failure and whose money is being wasted when it fails.
It implies that if a business fails, both the entrepreneur and the investors lose money. Be aware that employees and professional managers lose their jobs, and their money is not at risk unless they are venture partners. Because the entrepreneur is taking risks, their success or failure is directly related to their own.
We need an entrepreneurial ecosystem that fosters entrepreneurship.
The phrase nurturing ecosystem is often used. It’s no different for entrepreneurs who live in an atmosphere that discourages risk-taking, does not accept failure, and does not equip them with the financial and human resources they require to thrive. There is a robust ecosystem in place for entrepreneurs in the United States, but it is difficult to get finance, work through red tape, and assure that the business will flourish in many other nations.
HARSHITA RASTOGI
GROWTH CENTRAL VC