Become an Expert Entrepreneur you need to Following these Tips

Entrepreneurship always be a hot topic nowadays, so what comes to your mind when you
hear the word entrepreneur? There are several definitions about entrepreneur. Bolton and
Thompson (In Bolton and Thompson, 2004, p.244) defined an entrepreneur as “a person who
habitually creates and innovates to build something of recognized value around perceived
opportunities”. Beside that, Hisrich (In Osman and Murat, 2011, P.146) defined entrepreneur as
“someone who demonstrates initiative and creative thinking, is able to organized social and
economic mechanism to turn resources and situations to practical account, and accepts risk and
failure”. Based on the two definitions, a successful entrepreneur is required to have creative
thinking, innovation, and be risk taker. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you can learn
from take the Michael, he believed in the potential of computers way ahead of his time, so he
built a business from his dorm room. Everyone can imitate his ways. Once you have managed to
visualize your success, planning the road to achievement is a must. Here are a few tips of how to
be a successful entrepreneur.

Firstly you must be creative to start your business. In this step we have to shake our brain
to get the best opportunity. Creativity won’t just happen, it must be encouraged wherever
possible. We must try to create creative ideas, if we are not creative, people will not be
interested. Example of creative entrepreneur is Ahmad Hadiwijaya, he is the owner of “old blue
denim”. Departing from his love of denim, Ahmad Hadiwijaya built this OldBlue Co business.
According to him in every piece of denim there is a story behind it, that's why he loves the denim
products. Since 2010, OldBlue was distributed into the local market. In that year, Ahmad
Hadiwijaya seen many opportunities to start this denim business itself, although in the same year
also many emerging similar efforts (www.blackxperience.com). One thing that makes OldBlue
different from other denim products is because OldBlue dare to come out with a different
concept. that's an example of a creative entrepreneur.

After you explore the best opportunity you must be brave to start business, this is the
most important stage. You must be brave to take risks, never give up even the failure happen.
Failures are inevitable, especially when you take a big risk to achieve ambitious goals.
Recognize this before you begin. You will learn from your failures and they will only make you
better. For example chairman MPR Zulkifli hasan, he has been a household businessman since
the 80s (finance.detik.com) . According to him, paving the way to become entrepreneurs should
start from a strong determination and courage to take risks. Zulkifli pioneered the way of being a
businessman since youth. He said, the courage to take risks would form a strong entrepreneurial
mentality. that's an example of a businessman who dares to take risk

After a business has operated, you must innovate, if we do not innovate people will be
easily bored. You must make something new in order that people will not get bored quickly. for
example Nadiem Makarim, he is the founder and CEO of Go-Jek. He innovated by creating an
idea by combining motorcycle taxi drivers with prospective passengers in one application. The
simple solution turned out to get a positive response from the community and soon growing
rapidly (swa.co.id). That's an example of innovate entrepreneur

The conclusion is if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you must have creative
thinking, be brave to take a risk, innovate, and accept risks and failures. In addition, we have to
learn from successful entrepreneurs, we must imitate their spirit and mindset in order to be as
successful as they are.

Reference

Eroglu, O., & Picak, M. 2011. Entrepreneurship, National Culture and Turkey. International
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Thompson, J., Bolton, B. 2004. Entrepreneurs: Talent, Temperament and Opportunity. London:
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