Thought Leader:
Being a young entrepreneur is stimulating and exciting.
Of course, you have to be a natural leader, a great problem solver and a competitive, ambitious, goal-oriented, innovative risk taker. You must have motivation to spare and a huge amount of energy to deal with change, pressure and people who will not always be supportive of your venture or business ideas.
Let’s face it, whether you are young or old, business and entrepreneurship is not for the faint-hearted individual. Starting a business is hard work and always more complicated and difficult than you initially imagined. Once you have worked through the red tape - South African Revenue Service, Telkom, government laws and regulations, business registration, banks, finance and funding - you are bound to have more than your fair share of scaling and teething problems. So, to withstand all these obstacles, a great deal of personality, assertiveness and the ability to deal in a multicultural dynamic environment will be to any entrepreneur’s benefit.
So why would you complicate your life, and keep your family and friends at arm’s length to do all of this? A dream, of course, a goal and an immense need to make a difference in your life and in society.
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