Training

Born to be an Entrepreneur?

Are Entrepreneurs Born? Or Made?

What do you think? Are you born an entrepreneur? Do you become one early in life? Or are entrepreneurs likely to start businesses out of hard-won expertise who then start a business around their skills and networks?

Recent research shows that entrepreneurs are not likely to come from entrepreneurial families. And not all business owners identified themselves as being entrepreneurial-minded in college. Instead, 69% started their own businesses within 10 years of working for someone else

In other words, the most likely path to entrepreneurship is the simplest one: you work for someone, become an expert in a technical area, build a network of contacts, then strike out on your own, presumably with a believe that you can solve a problem or build a better mousetrap than competitors

China Trains Online Entrepreneurs

China Entrepreneurship – Jia Shaohua is helping his students set up their own online shops to learn business and management skills

Jia says his e-commerce entrepreneurship classes, in which about a fourth of the college’s students participate, offer real-life skills to students who graduate better equipped to compete against the millions of other university students who enter the job market every year

An educator at a vocational school with about 8,000 students, Jia is at the forefront of efforts to make higher education more relevant to China’s job market at a time when an economic downturn means university graduates face bleak prospects

Read Story: Hit by job crunch, China trains entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur Mindset – Online Learning

Kaufmann Foundation – Online Program to Identify the Entrepreneurial Mindset

Are entrepreneurs born with a unique gift? What is it that enables them to transform an idea into a successful new venture? What can we learn from their experience? Do I have what it takes to succeed? “Mindset” attempts to answer these questions and more, for the benefit of someone considering an entrepreneurial venture.

Based on more than 200 hours of on-camera interviews with a variety of successful entrepreneurs, including Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, E-Myth author Michael Gerber, Inc 500 winner Chuck Halberg, Pulitzer nominee Clifton Taulbert, Emmy winner Jim Stovall, serial inventor John Osher and many others, “Mindset” provides an inside look at what it really takes to start and grow a successful new business.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has teamed up with The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI) to offer “Mindset: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial IQ,” a self-paced online learning program that enables aspiring entrepreneurs to learn from the firsthand knowledge and experience of successful real-world entrepreneurs.

Enterprise Asia Championing Entrepreneurship Development

Enterprise Asia is a non-governmental organization in pursuit of entrepreneurship development across the region. We strive to promote fair and equal opportunities for emerging entrepreneurs.

Founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, the organization is supported by a panel of prominent industry and government leaders who truly believe in the mission of championing entrepreneurship in Asia

Website: enterpriseasia.org