📈Business & Finance
Entrepreneur
Builds and grows their own business
Builds a business from scratch: finds an idea, resources and customers, taking on risk to grow the venture.
What they do
- ▹Comes up with a business idea and tests it on real customers
- ▹Registers the business and works out how much money it needs to start
- ▹Hires and trains the first employees
- ▹Is personally responsible for every decision — from buying stock to marketing
Skills you need
- ▹Initiative
- ▹Willingness to risk money and time
- ▹Basic knowledge of finance and sales
- ▹Ability to persuade customers and partners
- ▹Resilience to failure
Focus on these subjects at school
MathematicsA foreign language
Where they work
- ▹Their own shop, café or workshop
- ▹Online business and marketplace trading
- ▹A startup with outside investment
- ▹A family or farming business
Pros
- + Complete freedom in decision-making
- + Potentially high income if the business succeeds
Challenges
- − High risk of failure, especially in the first years
- − Unstable income, especially at the start
Programs that lead to this profession
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