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What It Needs To Call Yourself A Real Entrepreneur
Like passion, entrepreneur is such a loosely used word. Nowadays, every madman with a proclivity for risk and affinity for ruling is fast to call himself an entrepreneur. I beg to differ. Entrepreneurs are the ones saving the planet, colonizing space or pledging millions to charity. But fear not, you don’t need to be a billionaire in order to be called an entrepreneur. In fact, you don’t need money at all
The word "entrepreneur” comes from French, where the verb entreprendre meant "to undertake”. Going back further in time and studying the Sanskrit language, you have anthaprerna meaning "self-motivation”. These two root words are great for describing the entrepreneur: a person who self-willingly undertakes the responsibility of not only himself, but many others.
Definition Of An Entrepreneur
As I said, it’s not about having money or power. Entrepreneurs usually feel uneasy when they reach a certain level and they need to "boss” people around and move their office to the last floor. That’s because entrepreneurship is tied in with the "not having” paradigm: the lack of resources and theinevitable innovation that brings forth.
In fact, one brilliant definition of entrepreneurship comes from Harvard Business School Professor,Howard Stevenson:
"Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled."
So basically, entrepreneurship is like daydreaming about a Ferrari and never waking up from your dream until you get it. It’s about assuming your present conditions and envisioning a better future, regardless of how things are now.
That’s not to say entrepreneurs are selfish creatures and only think about themselves. Business Magnate Richard Branson put it best in his linkedin article:
"…to me, being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people’s lives."
So, the entrepreneur is also the person whose job it is to create a better overall quality and standard of life in society.
What could be nobler than that?
Noble Career
An entrepreneur can do this by creating jobs, by advancing science, by coming up with solutions to the world’s various problems. A real entrepreneur is not the person seeking to fulfill his selfish goals. Every man aims to improve his life, but entrepreneurs, by creating businesses, knowingly or unknowingly, add value not only to their life, but also to the lives of many more human beings aside himself (or herself).
The Meta-Entrepreneur
While they do add value to people’s lives, spiritual leaders, inventors and philosophers are not entrepreneurs, per se. They add little to no value to the current world. Their advice is often theoretical, not empirical. As such, their work’s practical value isn’t improving the lives of others.
They are what you would call meta-entrepreneurs, offering guidance and information for the future generations of entrepreneurs. Their role is very important when analyzing the world through the ages. The Philosopher Socrates, working as a meta-entrepreneur, might have indirectly influenced far greater changes than any single entrepreneur could have.
A meta-entrepreneur is creating the informational platform for other entrepreneurs to draw upon and add real, practical value to others. But don’t mistake the two. An entrepreneur is the hands-on incarnation of merely theoretical principles offered by the meta-entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurship Is NOT A Job
It may be argued that any man, by doing his job thoroughly and diligently, is adding value to other people lives, improving the world. That’s correct. Professions such as doctors, healers, teachers and even politicians are inevitably creating a better quality and standard of life for society as a whole.
Nevertheless, no doctor, teacher or politician can be called an entrepreneur. None of them undertake the responsibilities of other people. They work within the confines of their jobs. They have a job. They follow rules – rules created by entrepreneurs or meta-entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurship is not a job. An entrepreneur creates the framework for improving his life and the lives of others. That’s a state of mind, not a job. I think Media Mogul Ted Turner summed it up nicely:
"My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job."
Are You An Entrepreneur?
In depends… in what sense. Creating a family absolutely qualifies you (considering our definition) to at least be called a "social entrepreneur”. As long as you take care of your family and make sure its members are respectable and working citizens, you’ve created a brilliant nucleus for society’s advancement.
But in the more practical, economic sense, you are an entrepreneur only if you’ve created a business which adheres to at least one of these rules:
- It creates jobs.
- It adds value by selling good products or services.
- It creates more wealth, not only for yourself.
And the worst part about it is that you can’t really call yourself an entrepreneur if you’ve had such a business in the past, but went bankrupt or sold it off. Being an entrepreneur is more than a job and it surely doesn’t grant you its title for life, like being a doctor does.
You either are one in the present moment or you’re not.
How To Be One
But if you’re not an entrepreneur now, what do you actually need to become one?
Well, according to billionaire Richard Branson, you just need to an powerful enough idea and a desire for fun:
"When making a start in business with Student Magazine, I didn’t even know what an entrepreneur was. All that interested me was starting a publication to protest against the Vietnam War – and having some fun along the way. If that meant becoming an entrepreneur, then that was fine too."
Can it really be that easy? Yes, absolutely.
Don’t Forget To Dream
Entrepreneurship is just a race to catch up with your dreams. I get called a serial entrepreneur a lot. I really don’t feel like one. I think the moment you call yourself an entrepreneur, that label draws power away from you. You stop being hungry.
As I said, entrepreneurship isn’t a job you get up and go to. It’s not a title. It’s a state of pursuit,, constant pursuit for your dreams beacuse you want those dreams to become a reality right? So you need to be an entrepreneur.
Lastly, I’ll leave you with this from the great Walt Disney:
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Free Call and Text Apps Can Save You Cost ( Smartphone )
The rate of growth of Smartphones today has made socializing even easier. Now one can easily keep in touch with friends and family and stay up-to-date with events happening around the world. The way news and internet contents are shared now is tremendous but one problem remains the huge incurring debt for using the Smartphones. Putting a Smartphone to quality use attracts a huge cost incurred from sending texts, making calls and subscribing to your network’s data plans.
An average Smartphone can incur a huge debt at the end of the month and since many Smartphone users are just average earners, I have decided to look for an alternative means of maximizing the potentials of my Smartphone without paying much. The free call and text apps for smartphones am about to introduce to your will help you cut down heavily on your phone bills.
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These free call and text apps for Smartphones will let you talk as much as you like on the phone, text as long as you like, even share multimedia with your friends for FREE! The other day a friends in Germany asked me to send her some Nigerian music and she just couldn’t stop asking for more because she likes them so much, and I was freely sending to her as much as my hands could lay without the fear of paying huge bills because I was sending them through an app that allows me to share multimedia for free.
The list of free call and text apps for Smartphones are endless as there are so many apps that can let you make calls, send SMS and MMS messages all year without paying a dime, but I will share with you the best ones I have used personally used that will work on your smartphone too no matter the device you are using.
Free Call and Text Apps for Smartphones that can Save You Cost
Whatsapp:
Am I the only person who thinks Whatsapp is the best alternative to Blackberry BBM? Whatsapp is probably the most popular messaging platform used on Smartphones today after Blackberry BBM. Whatsapp is a cross-platform app which means its available on any phone platform you use. Even Blackberry and iOS users who have inbuilt messaging apps on their device still use Whatsapp.
Whatsapp lets you share messages with your contacts, share multimedia files like audio, video, pictures, audio notes etc and it simply uses the internet to send your messages so you don’t attract your network’s fee for sending SMS and it operates worldwide for FREE!.
Viber:
Viber is a free call and text app for Smartphones that allows you to make free calls, send SMS and even share images without incurring your network charges for doing all this. You can make free Viber-to-Viber calls with your pals worldwide without paying a dime, send and receive SMS messages and share any pictures you find interesting with your friends, all for FREE!
Viber app is free for mobile and has recently extended to PC users. Viber uses your internet data plan to operate, this way the only cost you have to cover is internet data plan and not data plan, SMS charges, call charges, MMS charges etc. This is cost saving right?
Skype:
Skype is a free call and text app for Smartphones that lets you make free audio/video Skype-to-Skype calls with anyone worldwide, with Skype you can also exchange text messaging simply called text chatting with anyone anywhere in the world. Skype is also available for PC users and the best part is that it is FREE to use. So you can make your audio calls, video calls, send and receive files, send messages for FREE with your Smartphones using Skype.
Facebook Messenger:
Facebook Messenger is a free app by Facebook that lets you chat with your contacts, send and receive text messages and even make phone calls via VoIP, send voice messages all for FREE!
The voice messaging can allow you a one minute limit to talk to friends and even people on your contacts that do not have a Facebook account. Facebook Messenger also makes it possible to make free phone calls with people though the service is still to be made available in some countries yet. This is definitely one of my favorite free call and text apps for Smartphones.
Text+:
Text+ is indeed an awesome app that lets you send all sorts of messages to your friends and family for FREE! With Text+ you can send unlimited text messages and even unlimited calls using your smartphone. The only difference is that Text+ will issue you a new number to send all your messages with, so remember to notify the receiver so as to recognize you. Text+ is really a great app and works great and can really help you save a lot of money.
Voxer:
Voxer is a free push-to-talk app that lets you send and receive short audio messages, pictures and texts for FREE with your contacts, it works like a walkie-talkie. You can simply use this app on your smartphone and save cost.
These are the best apps I can find to help you save phone bills cost. You can send and receive messages with them, make free calls and even share multimedia files all for FREE. Do you know of other apps that can help one save phone bills? Please share with me using the comment form below. Remember to subscribe to my RSS.
