Who is an Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneur, an obscure word

According to society, this word describes a person who established an Enterprise, who is a company owner and has risen above all employees.

The term is a lot simpler and broader than that...

"Entrepreneur is everyone that moved by a necessity, make their ideas come to life either by willpower, intelligence or money."

Being an entrepreneur doesn't mean that you are a business owner, nor that you will risk money either. There are many people that make enterprises without them and they are successful. Keeping that in mind, there are a lot of different types of entrepreneurs, here are the main ones:

Business Entrepreneur

This person converts ideas into assets that are translated into money. Examples are company owners, empowered employees and salesmen.

Social Entrepreneur

This person convert ideas into resources that helps his or her community to improve. Good examples are: teachers, field medics and psychologists.

Scientific Entrepreneur

This person converts ideas into theories and then into formulas and experiments so we can improve our lives and technology further. This groups contains physicians, biologists, and economists.  

Ideology Entrepreneur

This person converts ideas into passion and philosophy to make his peers reach a higher understanding of life and the world. Here are writers, philosophers and artists.




As you can see, the world let us make a company out of almost everything. It depends on our willpower to change things around you to make them better. An employee with a new idea on how to make something more profitable, a doctor who find a new decease, an engineer that made a material stronger to last more on earthquakes, an architect that tried a new structure design, all of them are entrepreneurs.

Size doesn't matter

Aside from the types of entrepreneurs there is also the matter of the size. When someone talks to you about a company, a business or something similar you only imagine someone with a physical spot on some kind of market, a big building with tons of employees, a well established restaurant or something similar. Well, the thing is that you don't really need size to be powerful or big, nor any physical thing either. This has been confirmed all over again by Online Enterprises that are worth in millions and are managed by 3 employees with a laptop each; all they needed were their ideas, their willingness to learn and the willpower to keep going.


The real message here is:

"Everyone that makes an idea a reality is an entrepreneur, no matter if it's a product, a theory or an ideal of life. Regardless of the size or complexity of the goal or of when or where you do it, if you made it through, you become someone different, better and wiser, a real entrepreneur." 

Now that you know this, what kind of entrepreneur are you?

Something to start

When we are thinking how to be an entrepreneur we usually think in a high profile company with a big building and a lot of employees; usually a company isn't that way, specially now that the new technologies let us be big without a lot of people (take a look at Instagram. All that money with only 20 guys working!)

This exaggerated vision of entrepreneurship make us doubt in taking the most important steps of all:

The first step.

Usually the most mentally difficult but physically easier of the steps. Starting doesn't required a lot of knowledge, techniques or preparation; it usually has to do with things like Willpower, Commitment and Creativity (which I believe we all have at least a little bit).

The 3 Pillars of the Aspiring Entrepreneur

Willpower

This is a must when taking the first step. If you don't have the necessary willpower to maintain yourself on track and tackle head on the challenges (not only mental but also physical and social) that will arrive on your front door then I strongly suggest you think again if beginning the way of the Entrepreneur is for you. 

How to know if I have the proper Willpower? If you caught yourself doing some of these things then it means you are on the right track:

• Searching for hours on the Internet about our business idea and how to make it happen.
• Fervently defending your business idea when other people talk bad about it or try to discourage you from starting.
• Wanting to prove your close people that you can make your business idea come true even if you don't have their support.
• Accumulating all the knowledge you can about your business idea without saying "Wow, I don't think I can learn this much".

These are some of the ways your Willpower can show itself but there are many ways particular to each person. Once you identify that you have the willpower you can be sure that you are on the right track.

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Commitment

This is a very easy thing to recognize and it usually have to do on how long and hard you are willing to go for your dream. When we are in the first steps we always say that we will stick to our business idea forever; unfortunately many abandon their dream in less than a month if adverse circumstances knock on their front door. Examples of adverse circumstances are the following:

• Few or no money at all..
• Lack of time.
• Lack of tools (either physical space, tools or raw materials)
• Social rejection (people telling you that your idea isn't good enough and that you will fail).

The last one is the most difficult one since it will follow you to the end of your life but don't worry, steel yourself and follow your ideas and dreams as hardly as you can and you will have the necessary commitment to be not only an Entrepreneur but also a successful one.

Creativity

By far the most subjective skill but one of the most useful. Basically it means to think freely and imagine infinite different ways to do something common. Be careful, being creative isn't equal to being innovative; being innovative is to search for new and better ways to do something. To be an entrepreneur it doesn't necessarily means that you have to do something new; just do something a little bit different and stand out from the rest. 

Think out of the box for everything (and I really mean everything) and you will get a great idea from where you least expect it.

Keep it simple to start

If you combine these skills you will surely create something amazing, just believe in yourself and you will be on your way to be an Entrepreneur (remember that only you can determine if you are successful or not). You don't have to start big or even think in big things like having a skyscraper, thousands of employees and dozens of buildings; just think in the beginning, main idea and remember that less is more.