Five ideas that’ll inspire you to unleash your inner entrepreneur
First published at Hijacked on 07 December 2015.
The summer break usually means you either enjoy the hard-earned rest and put on the summer kilos, or you enrol in summer semester to torture your mind. But a third alternative exists: getting your entrepreneur on.
If you’re aiming to be your own boss one day, it pays to take this route. And the best part is it’ll keep the weight off and keep you in a studious mindset in preparation for semester one. If you’re looking to be a little more productive this break, here are five things to try out to unleash your inner entrepreneur.
Technology: digital natives’ playground
Why not design your own app? For high risk-averse people, getting into app development is safer, since it’s been on the rise and predicted to perpetuate. You could develop one related to a passion, like UNSW student David Morrison’s Fire Front Solutions’ PocketFire, which allows firefighters to share immediate bushfire information in real time.
Or maybe you’re more tangible: follow Taj Pabari’s lead by taking an existing product and deconstructing it for education. Pabari pulled apart a Google Nexus to create DIY tablet kits for children. He’s shown that entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be a groundbreaking concept not seen before; rather, it could simply be putting new twists on existing products.
Social enterprises: altruistic greed
If you prefer to create something that’ll improve the human condition, then a social enterprise is your calling. Look at recent proposals by teenage entrepreneurs at UNSW’s School of Public Health and Community Medicine about how they would improve the lives of the poor and marginalised via sustainable methods.
Another idea is to start an enterprise that uses one concept to serve many causes. Conscious Step, founded by Hassan Ahmad, Adam Long, and Prashant Mehta, designs socks to match a charity. “An allocated amount from the retail price of each pair goes to the organisation’s charity partners,” says Hassan. “The impact is quantifiable.”
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