This is an old saying, but it suits greatly to a very young Romanian entrepreneur- Alexander Stoica-Marcu, He is a living proof that nothing can stand in the way of an ambitious person. All you need is: to learn from others and your own mistakes, see the opportunities and never give up. This 18 […]
The experience of a young freelancer for different vocational training bodies and the employment agency in Vercelli
I am Stefania and in September I’ll be 30 years old; I live in Vercelli, in the North of Italy, with my boyfriend. Unfortunatelly, due to economic crisis and new labour costs, in December of 2012 I have lost my temporary and project works so, last year, in the first of January 2013, I decided […]
Entrepreneurship in Lithuania. A country of young entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, with an increasing number of opportunity-driven ventures
Lithuania has high levels of intrapreneurs (employees engaged in entrepreneurial activity) and young entrepreneurs. People are confident in their own abilities to start a business; however, they are less positive about the opportunities available to do so. Their creativity is constrained by fear of failure. The level of necessity-driven entrepreneurship is decreasing as its opportunity-driven […]
Caution when you present yourself in the internet!
Enterprises are using more and more information provided in social networks to find qualified human resources and to learn more about aspirants. Internet appearance allows them to draw conclusions about characteristics of the candidates. Online games, generating personality profiles in the background too manifest potentially the aspirant´s warranty of fitness for a particular job. A […]
Let’s startup!! The Sprawl Design Industries experience
“In the last years people discovered through the Internet new ways of sharing information, knowledge and ideas at incredible speed. Another transformation will soon completely change the way in which ideas become inventions, prototypes and products “ready to market”: the advent of digital fabrication. The newspaper The Economist, in an editorial on April 21, 2012, […]
Entrepreneurs Think Differently ..!
The world’s most successful entrepreneurs aren’t the ones who impulsively quit their jobs to chase a have-rich-quick idea. They are the ones with an entrepreneurial mindset -a set of perspectives and values that allow them to get greatness. Challenges are opportunities.. Successful entrepreneurs view challenges as opportunities. Each challenge or setback reveals a key opportunity to grow […]
Advice for the young entrepreneurs
In today’s economy, many young people think about starting a business as an alternative to employment, but statistics show that many of the start-ups fail from their first year. Every entrepreneur must know that a brilliant idea is not enough for a sustainable business; there are also some other essentials they must be aware of […]
Students become entrepreneurs
Nicholas Sciortino and Giovanni Renda are between 15 and 17 years old, but already thinking how be entrepreneurs. They are students to the ITIS Vittorio Emanuele III of Palermo, which, thanks to the business incubator born inside the school, have presented their business projects to the DPixel-Barcamper, an innovative program for startups aimed to search […]
Financing entrepreneurship through crowdfunding
Over the last years a new way of financing entrepreneurship is increasingly in use. Crowdfunding, which has its origin in crowdsourcing, is the collection of finance by people – the “crowd” – who network and pool their money together in order to fund an initiative which is initiated by other people or organizations. Thus crowdfunding […]
Business as an applied religion
A 23-year-old successful Romanian entrepreneur, Laurentiu Victor Balasa, comes with a new perspective on business and entrepreneurship. In an interview for Business24, he said: “Business is a kind of applied, practical, religion in motion because it gives people bread and happiness “, pointing out that “to be an entrepreneur is useful to society, so I […]
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