As it turns out, I’m an entrepreneur. A Top Member of the Bbittech int'l group. I didn’t really think about that when I started my own business , few months ago. I was unhappy about the limitations for growth at my then-current job, and I had a really clear and compelling (to me) vision of how I could serve clients in a way I didn’t see them being served, at my company {bbittech int'l} or other (www.levitoday.com) where I work.
And here I am few months later, with a thriving business that does, indeed, serve clients in unique and valuable ways, and that makes me happy to show up for work almost every day. And the rest of the team seems to feel that way, too.
As the years i have flowed by and bbittech (our business) has continued to not go belly-up, and in fact to grow and prosper, I notice that more and more people ask me what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. (For example, recently I was included in a team of great youth entrepreneurs, by Chuks Goodluck Flamez and Nag Chrissy Chi Odili; We all gathered and decided to make money from what we know (computer science ) and what advice we might give to young Nigerians .)
A few weeks ago I read an article in the NYT by Jay Goltz, a very successful Chicago-based entrepreneur, about what he thinks are the core attributes for being an entrepreneur. He listed six: Ambition, Creativity, Tenacity, Risk Tolerance, Intuition and Personality. I mostly agree with him, but with a few important differences based on my experience.
First, I completely agree with tenacity and risk tolerance . Getting a business from a glimmer in your mind to actually making money takes a kind of relentlessness; you have to get up every day and make effort to move the thing forward. And I’ve observed that it doesn’t work if the motivation is coming from outside — if you’re doing it because someone else is cheerleading you, or because you’re afraid of what will happen or who will think badly of you if you don’t. That kind of motivation is likely to fade in the rough and tumble of starting and running your own business. Your tenacity has to arise from within you. Successful entrepreneurs want to see progress every day, and they do whatever they can to make that happen. As for risk tolerance, if you’re daunted by the idea that every day you’re basically starting from scratch (especially in the early years) and that it’s all on you to move toward the vision — you will not be happy being an entrepreneur. Successful entrepreneurs have to feel reasonably comfortable trading the relative security of a paycheck and benefits for the working-without-a-net life of the start-up.
I also agree with creativity and intuition . A lot of making a new business successful has to do with blazing trails: making decisions where you don’t necessarily have all the information you need; getting things done with limited resources; appealing to needs customers may not yet even know they have. And in the beginning, you will definitely run into situations where nothing you’ve done before has prepared you to address the problem or take advantage of the the opportunity that’s in front of you. At those times, you have to be willing and able to think in new ways to come up with possible solutions that take best advantage of the strengths and assets you have at the moment.
My name is Levi... I just want to make something out of nothing...
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