Nurture: care for and encourage the growth or development of (entrepreneurial spirit). We chose the word nurture to group entrepreneurs that started businesses because they were influenced by others in some way. Parents were one of the most common reasons why people were more likely to have a strong entrepreneurial …
Read More »People start businesses due to circumstances.
Circumstance: a fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action, such as starting a business. Many like to call themselves accidental entrepreneurs, people that started a business due to circumstance are actually much more common than we expected. It is important to note that circumstance alone …
Read More »People start businesses in search of autonomy.
Autonomy – Freedom, Self-Rule, Self-Determination, Uncontrolled, Independence.Autonomy has been used as a grouping for generally similar motivations. The definition used: Freedom from external control or influence; independence. This reason why people start businesses should come as no surprise to anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit. What we found interesting was that some …
Read More »Why Jennifer Levine Hartz started a business and stuck with it.
Sukhi Jutla, MarketOrders – Facing adversity & overcoming it.
Success is forged in the fires of adversity. What past adversity can teach us and how it relates to current events. By discussing past adversity we remind ourselves that we’ve been through hardship before. In this interview with Sukhi Jutla we discuss her past adversity and her journey from a …
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