Entrepreneur Skills and Budding Entrepreneurship
In the UK I recently read that there is an outbreak of
entrepreneur fever.
The “Start up Britain” tracker website had counted, by last
Friday night, 313,583 new business registrations so far this year.
Of course many of these fledgling ventures won’t survive, and
many of their founders have struck out on their own simply because they cannot
otherwise find paid work. But that’s not the point: entrepreneurship and
optimism are closely related.
It is especially true to say that young entrepreneurs are
unencumbered by past failures, but if they know any history they also know that
many of the world’s greatest companies (Microsoft and Apple, to name but two)
emerged from small beginnings in past recessions.
There is an emerging choice for young people – do they incur
around GBP45,000 debt by going to University and then find they cannot get a
job, or do they have the aptitude to start their own businesses.
The evidence from the UK suggests the latter is starting to gain
ground.
