The Dreaming Entrepreneurs
As a result of the effort by the government and universities in encouraging youths to be entrepreneurial, a lot of the younger generations are starting to have dreams and ideas that they believe they can pursue as their future career.
While that may be a good thing on its own, the sad thing is that a lot of these people are thinking that a great idea/dream alone is sufficient to get them where they want to be. They believe that by offering stakes/partnerships to people, people would be impressed with their ideas and would be willing to work for them, for free, except for the stakes. Yes, bootstrapping is part of entrepreneurship, but this is clearly a misinterpretation on the idea of bootstrapping.
Along the route of my work as a freelance web developer, I have received several such partnership requests, offering imaginary stakes in their imaginary future companies in exchange for my service in web development. So far I haven’t accepted any.
While dreaming and being creative and innovative is good, what these people really need to learn is to have a more down-to-earth plan towards achieving their dreams. If the whole entrepreneurship is just about having a good idea and getting people to work on it for free, why is there a need for all the entrepreneurial education that the tertiary institutes in this country are giving?
Or is it due to these education that more and more of the younger generations are starting to have these dreams?
January 27th, 2007 / 4 Comments / Trackback