Entrepreneurship: Qualities and Challenges

This assignment delves into the world of entrepreneurship, examining the crucial qualities and potential obstacles faced by aspiring business owners. It highlights the importance of leadership skills, a willingness to take calculated risks, and the ability to adapt to ever-changing market conditions. The text also emphasizes the dedication and responsibility required for entrepreneurial success, as well as the constant need for attention and effort to ensure business growth.

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Executive summary
The objective of the paper is to analyse the attributes of an entrepreneur by reading the interview
of world’s biggest entrepreneur Bill Gates and decide whether entrepreneurship is better than
regular job. According to his interview, an entrepreneur should be responsible, challenging,
patience and far sighted. Further entrepreneurship is better than normal job only is the person is
ready to accept all the challenges that this profession possess.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Interview overview of Bill Gates.....................................................................................................4
Attributes necessary for an Entrepreneur........................................................................................5
Problems in Innovation....................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Entrepreneur is someone that is regarded an initiator of business and someone who drives
the business and is responsible for it. He is the one that keeps on initiating new ideas into a
business or come up with a unique idea to start a new business. Sometimes it might happen that
the entrepreneur is not the one that gives new ideas. However, he is surely the one to bring those
ideas into reality. He also carries out the activities of a leader and inspires the group to follow the
ideas put forward by him. This makes the entrepreneur responsible of the future of the venture
that he has set with his own projections (Mukherjee, 2016). However, entrepreneur is very
different from stakeholder. An entrepreneur might not hold the equity of the venture; however,
he has the duty to carry out the leadership role.
Bill Gates is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. He has always
believed in achieving his goal by working hard for it. He started his small business with the help
of his friend named Traf-O-Data. They started this company to analyse the demand for
computers n the world. This business helped them to earn a good amount of $20,000. However,
Bill Gates then took admission in Harvard University in 1973. After dropping out from college
he started his own venture called Microsoft. His new company was started with an aim that every
household will own a computer and Microsoft will make sure that their software is in every
computer. Now he is one of the richest and well-established man of the world that inspires every
person’s dream.
This paper will discuss about the recent interview with Bill Gates to analyse his vision of
being an entrepreneur and not an employee of a company. Further, the report will discuss about

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some attributes that is pointed out by Bill gates, which an entrepreneur should have. This will
help to know that being an entrepreneur is better than being a professional.
Interview overview of Bill Gates
In his recent interview, Bill Gates has pointed out five attributes or attitude a person
should possess in order to be successful in life as well as an entrepreneur (Carland, Carland, &
Stewart, 2015). Firstly, according to him a person should learn to say no as and when necessary.
There will be many instances in life where one needs to look after their own self and say no to
other. He has viewed that opportunities are unlimited in life, however, saying no for projects that
are not possible for you to do is very important in the end (THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW,
2017). Secondly, he answered that criticism is a part of our life and it is important for a person to
accept those criticism with a smile. Criticism always helps a person to recognise their weakness
and work on it to be better person. Thus, one should always say a thank you to the person who
criticise them. Thirdly, he pointed out that in order to be successful one should be optimistic to
situations as and when necessary. Being optimistic will help a person to start a new business
easily in such a world. Fourthly, one should be ready to accept failures in order to get successful
in future. This is because the success received after experiencing a failure is more enjoyable. It
also helps the person to learn good things and encourage them to take up new opportunities in
future without fear (Bill Gates, 2017). Lastly, he said that one should be too focused on their goal
and tries to progress on that continuously. One need to set their goal first and then find out ways
to achieve those goals. This requires them to be focused and plan the things that is necessary to
achieve the objective (Mas-Tur, 2015).

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According to Gates, every company has their own day and success is inevitably good on
those days. Every company has that one element that help them t drive their business such as
driving element for Microsoft is internet. Thus, entrepreneur should have that strong vision to
look out the element that will drive their ideas into success. Along with this, he is of the view
that every company is hit by crisis and it is then the entrepreneur should be calm and take up the
reins. On doing this, he needs to analyse the current market situation and move accordingly. He
point out that one can only succeed as an entrepreneur by finding joy in everything they do The
(Road to Success, 2017). Thus, an entrepreneur should not accept things that do not give
happiness as it would never create into success. Lastly, an entrepreneur should be really focused
in choosing their employees as they are the driving force of success and prosperity for their
business (Hampel-Milagrosa, Loewe & Reeg, 2015).
Attributes necessary for an Entrepreneur
Form the above interview overview of Bill Gates it is clear that a person should possess
certain attributes in order to be a successful entrepreneur (Tasnim, Yahya, & Zainuddin, 2014).
Vision:
A success entrepreneur should have a strong vision of what is going to happen in future
because of the decision he take at present. It is only through a successful vision an entrepreneur
can succeed in his objective and lead his team. A person should always try to figure out
something different, which is impossible for others. This will help them stand out of everyone in
the crowd of larger number of entrepreneur.
Taking advantage of unfair chances:

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There will be chances, which will look unfair to a person. However, in order to become
an entrepreneur it is necessary that one figure out the consequences that are best for them and do
accordingly even if it unfair. This is because these chances can never be executed or accepted by
everyone and if a person accepts it he/she can make themselves stand out of the crowd.
Uniqueness:
Uniqueness is one of the most important attributes that a person needs to become a
successful entrepreneur. This is because a normal idea can be developed by anyone and there
will be many in the crowd, which will try to execute same ideas leading to failures. Thus, an idea
that is different and focused will help them earn achievements throughout their life.
Challenges:
Next is challenges which is very necessary and evitable a entrepreneur has to face
throughout their business life. This is because the ideas they are coming up with are new and
involves a lot of risk. Thus, being ready to accept challenges and risk is the only way they can
survive (Lee-Ross, 2015).
These attributes are slightly different from those of GEM, which stated that an
entrepreneur should have attitude and Aspirations.
Problems in Innovation
One of the most important factors to be considered by an entrepreneur is that they need to
incorporate continuous innovation to their ideas in order to be different from others. However, it
is being considered that entrepreneurs are finding it difficult to incorporate innovations in their
ideas. This is because they face tight capital market that they need to invest in their new

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business. This shows that an entrepreneur even having a great idea will face downfall in teh first
few years of their business because of lack of funds. This is the time when the patient and
challenge of the entrepreneur is tested (Leutner et al. 2014).
Next important barriers faced by business while putting innovation is the rules that are
out on teh usage rate of the resources. Thus, this tests the entrepreneurs ability to vision out
things even in that scarce resources and employ it in its business (Kuratko, 2016).
Some of the business lack control power and creativity that they can bring to their
business. This is the main reason behind failure of most of the entrepreneur even having a lot of
resources and ideas to put. Thus employing the idea with a creativity in it will not only help them
to move forward easily in their business and in a faster rate (Drucker, 2014).
Conclusion
The interview of Bill Gates that has been analysed above give a lot of motivation and
help to the person who is planning to be and entrepreneur in near future. He has suggested the
crucial behaviour that an entrepreneur should have normally such as patience, challenging,
insightful and many more. Thus, a person should possess all these skills in order to become
successful in this field.
Entrepreneurship is better than other professional jobs only for a person that loves to take
up challenges and initiate new ideas in life. This is because a normal job becomes monotonous in
long run; however, being an entrepreneur will help them experience new things every day. It si
also important that a person should have leadership skills for being an entrepreneur as he/she will
have to assist a lot of member and employers working under him/her to make a dream come true.
However, a person should be ready to take up a lot of responsibility and no holiday job for

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becoming an entrepreneur, as the condition of the business needs to be continuously assisted for
success.

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