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Starting your own business and being an entrepreneur is a wonderful experience at any age. However, I often find young people shying away from starting their own businesses because they think they lack the experience required. Although experience helps, being young still does not limit your capacity to be happy and successful in business. I have been involved in various entrepreneurial ventures since I was 13 and can say that running your own business is a wonderful experience. Here are 10 advantages of being a young entrepreneur.
1. Personal growth on overdrive
In order to succeed in business, you must undergo massive personal growth. You will need to identify, develop, and internalize a large skill-set. You need to be able to communicate well with clients and employees, make quick decisions, develop the ability to understand your customers' wants and needs, and present your solutions to their desires effectively.
As an entrepreneur, you have to face a lot of uncertainty. It's not like most jobs where your tasks or projects are given to you and you just do them. As an entrepreneur, you first have to decide what the projects are. You have to think about product development, marketing, accounting etc. There is a great deal of uncertainty in this process and you have to rely greatly on your own judgments.
Success in business is a long-term endeavor. There are very few quick successes - the businesses that succeed grow consistently for a period of time until they hit their tipping point. In order to effectively manage this process, you must develop a clear vision for your business, a plan to implement, the flexibility to adapt as necessary and the commitment and persistence to stick with it for the long term. Few