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ntrepreneur!<br />
enough, get to know it or get<br />
mom/dad/school to help.<br />
The financials should show that<br />
your business is viable.<br />
The ‘spirit’: Have you got what<br />
it takes? Can you work every day<br />
for months on end and survive<br />
on very little until it starts to<br />
take off? If you can, you may have the ‘spirit’.<br />
Sell it: … and that is the critical part. You will need to sell it to a<br />
bank, sell the solution to a customer, sell … and so on. YOU are the<br />
sales force to begin with, and the developer, and … everybody.<br />
Skills: this is the hard part. Do we really equip youth to become<br />
business owners? We talk about the skills required and knowledge<br />
about the legal aspects. SARS, VAT, CIPC, DTI, Bank, insurance,<br />
(Pty) Ltd, CC, and a million other things.<br />
I foresee that we need a much stronger focus on the practical<br />
skills of entrepreneurship in grade 10-12. Maybe it needs to be<br />
extra-murals? Maybe it needs to be additional alongside the usual<br />
curriculum. If you want it badly enough, you may have to sacrifice<br />
hours in the evenings to build the skills. It<br />
could be a solution.<br />
After all, being an entrepreneur is actually<br />
very hard work the first few years. Why not<br />
start now in grade 10-12? If you want it.
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