a couple of days ago I read an entry called Third Attitudes. This entry is critical to those who have no intention of starting your own business, and instead they are happy in the role of employer. Contrary to the author's opinion, I think the desire to create business is not a first-world attitude, nor is it something totally undesirable. In advance, I offer my respects to those entrepreneurs and affirm that I have nothing against them.
First of all, to say that the company does not want to create a Third World is acitud totally wrong. According to a study published by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in 2007 and quickly summarized by time on 20 June 2007 (this link needs you to be a member of the time), Colombia is the second country world where more companies are created, only surpassed by Peru. According to the report, 22.48% of Colombian citizens were involved in the creation of new businesses. The number of Colombian entrepreneurs contrasts with that of Belgian entrepreneurs, the second highest per capita income in Europe (only behind Luxembourg) where only 2.73% was involved in this activity. In Japan, another first world country, the percentage of the population was involved in the creation of enterprises is slightly larger than Belgium, 2.9%. Based on these statistics it can be concluded that entrepreneurship is an attitude of the first world, but that is part of the idiosyncrasy of Colombia.
is curious, however, that upon my arrival in Germany I also noticed that there were many small companies, nor were many entrepreneurs. Pro that reason at some point I started to find out why a country with an economy as large had so few new businesses. Shortly thereafter, while carrying a conversation with a political scientist, I learned that the reason is this. The law is designed so that only companies that can prove its sustainability in the medium and longer term could be created. So that while few companies are created, most of them survive for a long time. This also contrasts with the situation in Colombia where 10% of businesses close their doors built before completing one year of operation. Here, again Colombia is second worldwide in new businesses closed.
Perhaps the only first world country where companies are opening up is the United States of America. But the American mentality is totally different from the Colombian. While Colombian entrepreneur loves his company as his own son, who jealously guards. American entrepreneur hopes to create a just idea, whose intellectual property may be sold at a high price (which is why U.S. is considered the true capital of a company is its patents). Interestingly, two of the biggest companies today failed to convince the big players to buy their business ideas. Google such that Yahoo failed to buy their algorithm . Similarly, Microsoft failed to buy the company IBM.
As I have shown that entrepreneurship is not a first-world attitude, I show that I consider that this spirit can become a threat to the economy. In advance I want to clarify that the following paragraphs do not apply to companies that provide innovative products. And new product should be understood by those products that meet a consumer need that was not previously satisfied. However, I experience in Colombia, I said that very few companies offer innovative products, and generally engage in repeating formulas that were successful in competition.
First, we have our entrepreneurial companies which generally offer a product or service. Then we have the consumers of the products or services of the first companies. These consumers can be anything, other companies, end users, government, etc. These two players interact in an ecosystem called the market. Simplifying things, consumers can be divided into two groups, small consumers who buy the highest bidder, and large consumers, who are more interested in ensuring that their needs will be met, that the price they must pay for the product.
The market generally has a size that does not change much, unless, of course, that you need for the product increases. This implies that having a greater number of producing companies, each will have a smaller share of the market and decreased opportunities growing. Now, if all firms remain small, then it may provide the guarantees consumers are demanding major. This is how the streets of Bogota are arranged by Mexican conglomerates, the information system of the National University (which is a disaster) was designed by a English company. In the end, only has a large number of small businesses that are not competitive either nationally or internationally, sad situation in a globalized world. So I think that is worth a couple of companies well positioned to an army of companies that hardly make enough money to support their respective owners.
Finally, on a personal level I can say that I do not want that company does not want to devote to administrative duties while I stop doing what I love. Secondly, it is my research and it is almost impossible for a newly founded company can afford to fund research projects to this end we need to work in an institution for that purpose (as I do now in this institution ), or a company already established a laboratory (like IBM).
In conclusion, I think not wanting to be an entrepreneur is an option that deserves respect, just how deserving entrepreneurs.
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