Entrepreneurship

In one of the lectures, the professors posed an interesting clicker question that made me think: What will I be doing after I graduate? The answer I chose was “C”- I want to raise millions of dollars to start my own company.

Yet after reflecting upon my original answer, I would argue that my answer should be a combination of A, B and C. In order to be a successful entrepreneur, experience is required. Nolan Watson, the Sauder graduate who later on became the CEO of Sandstorm Gold Company, told us during the skype call that he worked with a CEO for a large corporation in order to gain experience before becoming the CEO himself. Another quality of an entrepreneur is the ability of being innovative. Wade Larson, another Sauder graduate who started up Urthecast, showed us their company’s innovative idea that seeks to film earth from high definition cameras located in space and streams footage directly to the web.

Both of them demonstrates the fact that success is not build in a day, and that all startups are risky and requires innovation- but in the end, that is also what entrepreneurship is all about.