The subject of the external blog was entrepreneurship, which made me think back to the 2 guest speakers from last week. Entrepreneurship is a difficult topic to write about, because it is very easy to just say: “identify an unexploited market”, but extremely difficult to actually spot a gap that someone else has missed. My reflections on the topic are that you don’t need to conjure up the next generation of smart phones or cars in order to be a successful entrepreneur, sometimes the gaps in the market are much simpler and less sophisticated, like that Ethiopian woman from the social enterprise lecture, who just sold milk. Thinking of that woman makes me think that being an entrepreneur doesn’t always equate to a tremendous amount of risk and capital.
Bibliography
http://www.smallbusinessbc.ca/post/inventing-101-taking-idea-your-head-and-putting-it-your-hands
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