Can everybody be an entrepreneur?

EVERYBODY dreams of making it big in his own business, but does everybody have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

Question worthy of a highly paid professor’s two-full-hour lecture in the country’s best business schools. Personally, I think the better question is: do you have what it takes?

A little-known book called “Dreamers, Doers, Risktakers” published by the UP Institute of Small-Scale Industries tells of persons from all parts of the wealth spectrum — from rags-to-riches dreamers to wealthy doers — and how they made their dreams come to fruition.

Different backgrounds, different training. Different personalities. A more popular book, “Go Negosyo,” shows the same thing. What’s the entrepreneurial gene that binds them all together? And on top of that gene, what behaviors and market conditions allowed them to build a business that not only made them wealthy, but also allowed them to employ other Filipinos?

This new blog called Open For Business is a testament that Filipinos can be entrepreneurs. We may have to fight against years and years of cultural flaws that keep us from becoming dreamers, doers and risk-takers. We may have to train our minds to embrace and accept ways of thinking that might seem different and strange. We may have to accept that not everyone will eventually strike it big.

But we can try. We can try to prove that entrepreneur is the one in front of the mirror.

So jump in, and join the discussion. Let the idea viruses flow.

Photos courtesy of Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Kids

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