Essay On Entrepreneurship

Introduction Opening Entrepreneurs play a very important role in the economy as they are the building blocks for a country by providing job opportunities, producing goods and rendering services to consumers. An entrepreneur is an individual or group of people (entrepreneurs’) that identify a business opportunity in a particular market and then provide a product or render a service that will satisfy the needs and wants of the consumers. In my opinion entrepreneurship should be promoted more and thought to the younger generations as it has lots of different advantages to it such as providing job opportunities which will lead to combating socio-economic problems such as poverty and unemployment which in turn will reduce crime levels because more people will become employed. The younger generations should be thought entrepreneurial skills from early ages so that they could be exposed to entrepreneurship from the early ages and the younger generation is more creative and new inventions and developments could be invented and established by them. So in this task is all about 2 entrepreneurs that are famous for their entrepreneurial skills that have lead them to success in their lives. It will explain why they are seen as entrepreneurs and find out the product that they invented or service that they rendered that lead them to success. Richard John Pelwana Maponya Why his seen as an entrepreneur: Opening and Background information: Richard Maponya was a very successful South African entrepreneur, who was born in Limpopo on the 24th of December 1926 and was raised in Soweto and had a dream to see the Soweto township develop economically. At the age of 22 Maponya was a teacher and was offered a job as a stock tacker in a clothes manu...

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