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I want to make my own business.

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Marcel’s Answer

There isn’t one way to find the perfect idea or have the ah-ha moment that will start you on the path to entrepreneurship. You can discover opportunities by examining your own needs amd bringing your personal experience to the table, or you can revive an old ideas and shaped to current needs. However, when your own ah-ha moment arrives, take a chance.
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Ken’s Answer

The best thing that you can do to start out is to get to know yourself as well as you can to see which career area in which you might want to have a business. Below I will outline the steps that will allow you to do that in an effective manner.


Regarding having your own business: During my many years in Human Resources, I have seen many people enter into ownership of a business by first working with someone who had a successful business of the kind that they would like to have and worked with them to become the best possible employee and were able to take over the business at the appropriate time or because part owner or major stakeholder in the business. By working with someone who has a successful business, you do not have to make all of the mistakes that that person make along the way.


Getting to know yourself and how your personality traits relate to people involved in various career opportunities is very important in your decision making process. During my many years in Human Resources and College Recruiting, I ran across too many students who had skipped this very important step and ended up in a job situation which for which they were not well suited. Selecting a career area is like buying a pair of shoes. First you have to be properly fitted for the correct size, and then you need to try on and walk in the various shoe options to determine which is fits the best and is most comfortable for you to wear. Following are some important steps which I developed during my career which have been helpful to many.


To learn more about setting up and running a small business go to the site for the Service Corp of Retired Executives (SCORE.ORG). This organization, which is part of the Small Business Administration, is made up of retired executives who provide free consultation and workshops regarding the setting up and running a small business.

Ken recommends the following next steps:

It is very important to express your appreciation to those who help you along the way to be able to continue to receive helpful information and to create important networking contacts along the way. Here are some good tips: ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-informational-interview-thank-you-note-smart-people-know-to-send?ref=recently-published-2 ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/3-tips-for-writing-a-thank-you-note-thatll-make-you-look-like-the-best-candidate-alive?bsft_eid=7e230cba-a92f-4ec7-8ca3-2f50c8fc9c3c&bsft_pid=d08b95c2-bc8f-4eae-8618-d0826841a284&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_20171020&utm_source=blueshift&utm_content=daily_20171020&bsft_clkid=edfe52ae-9e40-4d90-8e6a-e0bb76116570&bsft_uid=54658fa1-0090-41fd-b88c-20a86c513a6c&bsft_mid=214115cb-cca2-4aec-aa86-92a31d371185&bsft_pp=2 ##
Locate and attend meetings of professional associations to which people who are doing what you think that you want to do belong, so that you can get their advice. These associations may offer or know of intern, coop, shadowing, and scholarship opportunities. These associations are the means whereby the professionals keep abreast of their career area following college and advance in their career. You can locate them by asking your school academic advisor, favorite teachers, and the reference librarian at your local library. Here are some tips: ## https://www.careeronestop.org/BusinessCenter/Toolkit/find-professional-associations.aspx?&frd=true ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/9-tips-for-navigating-your-first-networking-event ##
Next, when you have the results of the testing, talk to the person at your high school and college who tracks and works with graduates to arrange to talk to, visit, and possibly shadow people doing what you think that you might want to do, so that you can get know what they are doing and how they got there. Here are some tips: ## http://www.wikihow.com/Network ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/nonawkward-ways-to-start-and-end-networking-conversations ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/4-questions-to-ask-your-network-besides-can-you-get-me-a-job?ref=carousel-slide-1 ##
The first step is to take an interest and aptitude test and have it interpreted by your school counselor to see if you share the personality traits necessary to enter the field. You might want to do this again upon entry into college, as the interpretation might differ slightly due to the course offering of the school. However, do not wait until entering college, as the information from the test will help to determine the courses that you take in high school. Too many students, due to poor planning, end up paying for courses in college which they could have taken for free in high school.
Thank you comment icon To learn more about setting up and running a small business go to the site for the Service Corp of Retired Executives (SCORE.ORG). This organization, which is part of the Small Business Administration, is made up of retired executives who provide free consultation and workshops regarding the setting up and running a small business. Ken Simmons
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Kevin’s Answer

Youssef,
I own a company based in Dubai and love it. This was not planned and happened after I served as a consultant in the MENA region. Check out what entrepreneurship groups and organizations are in Egypt like INJAZ, intern with a start up, and read about businesses/start ups/entrepreneurs. My business was the result of a problem identified by lots of educators. I took the risk and started a company over five years ago overseas.
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