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Best way to learn entrepreneurship

Learning to become an entrepreneur is one of the most common New Year’s goals of most people today. 

And it has been proven that the behavior of the entrepreneur is able to lead to personal and professional success.

Learn in this article how to learn entrepreneurship from an early age, and what is the best way to do it in each case.

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Learning to start a business

Learning to start a business is not a stipulated path for everyone. In the path of every entrepreneur we will find a couple of critical factors, being among the most common the strategic analysis, the delegation of functions, the financial prevention and the administration.

It has been concluded, through studies with real ventures, that when the aforementioned factors are executed in the right way, then you become one of the 25% of businesses that have a chance of surviving their first year.

The first step to undertake the creation of a business idea must always be to see what product or service is expected to be offered to the group of customers (i.e., the market).

Only through the above action is that you will be able to offer an attractive product or service, which is relevant, and that satisfactorily fulfills its function of covering a desire or need.

Besides, it is recommended that it be something that the entrepreneur likes, since without passion there is almost never innovation.

Learning and walking the entrepreneurial process is a daily task, and in many cases it is good to look at profitable businesses of today that at the time acted as an innovative idea, as is the case of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, or Lorenzo Servitje’s Grupo Bimbo.

You have at hand all the digital tools to gain the necessary knowledge, there are many online courses and workshops, both free and for cost, where you can move towards the right direction.

And, besides, there is plenty to take inspiration from the path that others have traveled, and thus create your own.

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Learning entrepreneurship from childhood

Perhaps in our days learning entrepreneurship from childhood was one of the things that least concerned us (and our parents included) today we have the virtue of knowing that it is an important trait to develop and a behavior worthy of adopting.

That is why, between play and fun, we can educate our children to be entrepreneurs in the future. Keep in mind the following tips:

  • Support their causes. If your son or daughter has a feasible idea for an activity, you can be there to help him or her, but always let him or her take the initiative. Show support, watch him or her from a distance, and let him or her see that he or she is self-sufficient.
  • Teach management tools to your child. If the idea merits it, you can teach your child to make a plan with everything that has to do with the realization of their "project". Remember, again you will act as a guide, but the decisions of the steps to follow must be made by them, but brainstorming is not a bad thing.
  • Encourage him or her to develop exposure skills. To learn entrepreneurship from childhood, the child must be taught not to be afraid of verbal exposition. It is public speaking that convinces others that you have an incredible project. The best activities for this are written or invented works where you expose yourself to your friends or family.
  • Don't be afraid of entrepreneurship. There is nothing that marks a child more than what he or she has seen from his or her parents, so showing an entrepreneurial mindset attitude makes the child internalize it. You don't always have to go for a big project, sometimes good examples are found in simplicity.
  • Show them how to show solidarity. Don't teach them that behind every undertaking there is an economic gain, show them that sometimes you can undertake to take an action in solidarity with another. You can start by selflessly benefiting a friend, family member, neighbor, or association of interest.

Learning entrepreneurship at university

Learning entrepreneurship at university is possible. Although it is recognized that the path of entrepreneurship is very broad, there are certain careers that have content that can nurture an entrepreneur in general terms so that he/she can then have the necessary basis to build his/her path.

There are multiple international entrepreneurship universities with programs that develop this career.

In order to give you a clear idea about it, you may be interested in the following:

  • Marketing. The intention of an entrepreneur is to boost a business and keep it in the market, this is the perfect task for a marketer who has knowledge in digital strategy. Among the skills that are gained is the detection of consumer needs and analysis of the competition.
  • Business administration. It is a career that is useful in business management, as well as in the development of management skills. It provides the basis for evaluating, detecting and assuming risks capable of improving the effectiveness of a business.
  • Finance and accounting. To learn to be an entrepreneur, one must know how to control income, expenses, taxes, accounts, invoicing and everything related to the economic activity of a business.
  • Communication. It may take you by surprise, but it is a useful career for the establishment of dissemination strategies, the definition of appropriate channels, as well as the language and style of writing that serves to impact consumers.
  • Economy. In order to learn entrepreneurship, it is also necessary to have a solid knowledge of how the global market works. You must be able to understand how the consumption of goods and services works, as well as the way in which they have the capacity to affect people's economy.
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