Evaluate your Potential to be an entrepreneur?

No one ever said being an entrepreneur is easy. Creating your own business and career path is tough  and succeeding in this lifestyle seems to require an exclusive mix of traits.

After all, most of the entrepreneurs I know are intelligent. They are hardworking and usually at the top of their given field. However, all too often I’ve watched these smart people go from thriving in the workplace to struggling as a business owner.

While taking about me , I do believe that "I am a committed and hard working individual who enjoys a challenge. In addition to strong communication skills, I am able to work effectively in a team. I can also demonstrate advanced problem-solving skills and thrive under pressure. My drive and ambition ensure I do have a potential to be an entrepreneur."

For me , I think to be a successful entrepreneur the following are some of the critical and important points which an entrepreneur should have and I do think I do possesses these quality.  The key points are:

1. Willingness to take action. This is the first and most important factor for each would be and current entrepreneur. All other factors presented below, is not important if you don’t take a real action. Actions are something that lead entrepreneurs to the success. Without them, they are nothing.
2. Knowledge. Entrepreneurs are persons who must have superior knowledge about specific business issues for business that they start.
3. Creativity. You must be creative persons if you want to be unique and with the power of continuously improvement of your business.
4. Skills. Each entrepreneur and each business will need different entrepreneurial skills that in some cases can be crucial for business success.
5. Intelligence. You must be intelligent to manage all possible situations and solve the hardest problems that will be a constant in your business life.
6. Patience. You must be patient and ready to continue even if you lose the first battle, because the war is not finished. It’s only the beginning.
7. Persistence. Persistence simply is a refusal to give up from something, or ability to keep your actions against your personal feelings that you’re not ready for these actions. Feelings and motivation didn’t produce results, but the action is something that will produce it.
8. Teamwork. Nobody can achieve anything alone so this is true also for an entrepreneur because they’re not a “Superman”. They must be team players for their own and business success.
9. Calculated risk. This is truly one of the most important questions: Are they taking enough risk? Yes, each business startup is in some level risky. However, more important is how a successful entrepreneur takes a risk? The word calculated risk is the most appropriate word for this feature.
10. Self-Confidence. Self-confidence is a really important and key factor. I think that nobody would be an entrepreneur if don’t have self-confidence that he knows how to start and manage their own business.
11. Experience. Sometimes experience is in category not must have as a factor, but it is something that will increase business potential energy. They must employ all present and previous experience they have into the business that they are building.
12. Talent. Talent is something inborn in an entrepreneur. Sometimes talent can be replaced with knowledge.
13. Honesty. Honesty is important in every case, but sometimes honesty, being real can be the biggest enemy of an entrepreneur in some complex conditions.
14. Connections. More connection means more possibilities for building a successful business.
15. Luck. Luck is a psychological factor. Some people can say that they don’t have a luck. And indeed there are some “lucky people” who just accidentally found the right place at the right time with the right idea. However, it is a small percentage and cannot be included as a serious factor for success.

So, to be an entrepreneur is not easy it’s too difficult and I am trying my best to boost up my qualities and sharpen my strength to be a successful women entrepreneur of Nepal.