Stone Origin Tweet Meet on Saturday, 19th October, 2013. 3pm-5pm
Topic: Entrepreneurship: Gifted Hands; making youths productive
Guest: Afolabi Olayinka
He is an Entrepreneur computer programmer, a web developer and a writer. He is A Chief Software programmer, Platform Technology LTD , C.E.O Equals Solutions LTD, and Founder, Peerangle.com
Hashtag: #Gift
Objectives of the Tweet meet on Entrepreneurship: Gifted Hands
-Giving youth examples of gifts that could be possible Career
-An avenue to learn, interact and work towards developing the knowledge, skills and mindset you need to identify and pursue a career path.
-To encourage young people on how best they can monetize their gifts
-To enable youths to think, discover, create and explore.
Bellow is the detailed report of the outcome of the tweet Chat.
•Your willingness to learn and positive actions will be crucial factors in your success,
•You need to be backed by a network of support in the form of mentors who have a vested interest in seeing you flourish
•The nature of being an entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and comfortable with being challenged regularly.
•Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of their unwavering belief, laser focus on delivering and persistence.
•Starting a company is a riveting roller coaster of emotions with tremendous highs and at times, difficult lows, but one thing that always helps me through the ups and downs is to connect with some of the greatest minds.
•Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't".
•Entrepreneurs are investors in talent – their own or other people's.
•The most renowned creative entrepreneurs have combined creative flair with entrepreneurial ability to build multi-million dollar business empires. Examples include Rupert Murdoch, Madonna and Richard Branson.
•Creative Entrepreneurs need to master specific skills: an understanding of intellectual property is essential, combined with the ability to manage cash flow, key talent and the creative process effectively.
•Rules for successful creative entrepreneurs. These rules include: invent yourself, prioritize ideas over data, be nomadic, learn endlessly and, most importantly, have fun.
•An entrepreneur is an individual who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so.
•Its first known usage, by economist Richard Cantillon, was in 1723. Today, An entrepreneur is defined as someone having the qualities of leadership.
•An innovator of ideas regarding manufacturing, delivery, or service needs (or any combination of these).
•Entrepreneurs are innovators who use a process of shattering the status quo of the existing products and services, to set up new products, new services
•An entrepreneur is a person with a high need for achievement. He is energetic and a moderate risk taker.
An entrepreneur searches for change, responds to it and exploits opportunities. Innovation is a specific tool of an entrepreneur hence an effective entrepreneur converts a source into a resource.
•Entrepreneurs take initiative, accept risk of failure and have an internal locus of control.
•The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator — a generator of new ideas and business processes.
•Management skill and strong team building abilities are often perceived as essential leadership attributes for successful entrepreneurs.
•Give it your best. Discovering several gifts is an added advantage. Just set you priorities right.
•Your gift is a skill and your skill is a gift. Find it, Use it, maximize it and be grateful to God for giving it to YOU!
•People pay for perceived Value, package your gift to be very attractive.
•Don't hide your gifts. Seek opportunities to express it. Don't wait till you are asked. Start for free and you will soon get a fee
•Attend seminars, workshops, training, coaching and seek mentorship
Read books and materials to help grow your gift
•Learn what areas to develop and focus, develop communication skills to express your Natural Talents at the drop of a hat.
•Most importantly, discover yourself then discover your purpose.
•Think, Explore, innovate, invent Create...but in whatever you do, be you.
•Whatsoever idea you have, write it down, do a feasibility study on the idea and execute it.
•Charles Darwin says: I see further because I have been standing on the shoulders of those before me
Most renowned entrepreneurs have combined creative flair with entrepreneurial ability to build multi-million dollar business empires.
•While people have actual skills in production/manufacturing, Others have skills in management & creative thinking
•To be able to monetize you gifts, invent yourself, priorities ideas, be nomadic, learn endlessly and most importantly, have fun.
•Entrepreneurs take initiative, accept risk of failure and have an internal locus of control.
•Don't forget Bead making, Shoe making, Tie & Dye and Baking .These are lucrative skills.
•For examples of gifts that can form a career, you start by laying out all your interests, your hobbies, thing you can do for hours without getting bored of doing.
•The number 1 factor which can also be rephrased as discovering yourself is the first step of achieving your goal as an Entrepreneur.
•The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator — a generator of new ideas and business processes. Just innovate.
•We pay for our ignorance. It's because we can't repair our slippers ourselves. We pay mallam. We can learn simple skills and save our money
•Note that having a lucrative skill isn't a disease. You can be educated and know so much about Shoe Making.
•Acquire a different lucrative skill every year. Barbing, tailoring, hair styling.
David Frost said: Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally...
•Would you say all humans have entrepreneurial skills? And if not, how best can we develop the skills
•Start with little, along the line, God will increase you
•Greatness has been deposited in every life, depends on you to identify it. What steps have you taken, what training have you gone for?
•Do you want to be relevant in life? Utilize your gifts, then you will be.
•Entrepreneurship is initiating or financing new commercial enterprises
•Whatever way the definition is phrased; it still comes down to an individual been his/her own boss
•At a point, I was worried about my assignment on earth. I prayed and asked God to show me the secret of my life. And he sure did
•Your skill is unique to only you. Take time, discover it and develop it.
Pursue your destiny in the areas of professed Profession. Aspirations alone won't take you far
•Try developing your skills, it works
•Our greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
•An entrepreneur is someone having the qualities of leadership and, additionally, is an innovator of ideas."
•The Awoshika, the Wale Adenuga, the successful business men & women of today started somewhere. Take that bold step and start too.
•An entrepreneur is someone having the qualities of leadership and, additionally, is an innovator of ideas.
•An entrepreneur is an individual who organises and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so.
•Your willingness to learn and positive actions will be crucial factors in your success as an entrepreneur.
Conclusion
-Whatever way entrepreneurship is defined, it still comes down to an individual being his or her own boss.
-Try to figure out what others around you can't do but you can
-Discover yourself, Discover you purpose.
-Acquire a different lucrative skill every year. i.e Barbing, tailoring, hair styling.
-Develop your skills. It works. God has deposited greatness in every life. Depends on you to identify it. Start from little, along the line, God will increase you.
Handles of the participants of the Tweet Meet
@RemmyAlex @RoyalAmebo @RichEdwrds @60daymba @JanAhrend @totalli_bored @graceeyde @Jimy__king @PersonAce @fortifiedmoses @Strawz5 @kpokish @college_groove @mz_rahela
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