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Personally. I think anyone can be an entrepreneur.
Everyone can actually show that spirit and that determination to try things and make things happen.
I think entrepreneurship is when you are your own boss,
you start your own business and a lot of the time it's when you
already start a job and then you make a spin-off company where you
take your own ideas and turn them into money, basically.
I think you have to be very confident and you have to be very
self-believing and really go for it, one hundred percent.
The ability to take calculated risks,
the ability to understand how markets work, the ability to understand
yourself, and understand where your strengths lie and use them to your advantage
inside the real world.
But they're also willing to change; to try different things;
to always be moving on, moving forwards, doing something new, something different.
I think entrepreneurship is about new business ideas and opportunities
and just developing yourself and coming in with an open mind.
I think you need to be a leader, I think you need to know how to delegate your work,
I think you need to be organized.
But it needs somebody to be able to step up, to be bold enough to go for it.
I'm here today to really talk about entrepreneurialism
and actually how an entrepreneur is defined
formally as someone who basically starts, owns and runs a business.
I first got interested in entrepreneurship when I
enrolled for the professional development module.
Well for me, the interest in entrepreneurship started when I saw the larger companies that operate today,
the way they use science, technology and innovation to develop the world further.
I think "I've got my own voice, my own ideas and I want to put them into a different environment."
I think at Aston, you have a lot of chance for
individual work and a lot of independence
and I think helps you branch out a lot from what you normally study
and research further into things and then you get ideas.
Aston has helped me to achieve my entrepreneurial aspirations in more ways than it probably knows.
It's built my confidence, which is one of the things I think an entrepreneur needs.
It's also offered me opportunities to get involved, there's always
openings for people who want to set up their own business or they want to start with something new -
a new project, to have
a go at anything you want and they'll be there to support us.
Aston has given me many opportunities, such as the Mandarin classes I took last year,
the debating society I was part of, the various sporting events I've taken part in.
These things are not directly related to my course; however they do help in the
field of entrepreneurship development
and help to develop me as a person.
The message I would give to anyone who's attending today is "if you have an idea,
try it. Give it a go."