The aim of entrepreneurship should not be "to change the world."

First of all, I am not a headline party, so I am not specifically to take a grandstanding name. However, I know the title of this essay, and many people believe that "entrepreneurship is to change the world," the respected view, on the contrary, even in the mainstream opinion, this is somewhat unorthodox feeling. But that's my point.

You must have read or heard stories of many entrepreneurs, and people who have heard of a lot of startups, or who are pioneering or not, and who are very fond of pointing entrepreneurs, in various ways, to promote the purpose of entrepreneurship. Generally speaking, these viewpoints are summed up, mainly:

Entrepreneurship is not about money.

Don't start your own business

Entrepreneurship is about changing the world.

Make the world a decoupled place (in fact, with the above view is a meaning)

First of all, I also agree that entrepreneurship is not for money, but I think for money to start a business, there is nothing wrong, but personal preferences are different. In speeches we often hear about the purpose of entrepreneurship, the most admired, and I just think that the most should not be the goal, is to change the world.

When someone told me that the purpose of entrepreneurship is to change the world, I would like to ask him: "Working in the company, can not change the world?" ”

Think about it, if you're working in a company that's changing the world, like Google, Facebook, or even Microsoft, these companies have changed and largely changed the world. Do you work in these companies and not change the world?

Or maybe you're not working in a big, famous company, you've been in a company that was founded for five years, valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, or worked in a firm with a market capitalisation of tens of billions of dollars, which may not be a huge market capitalisation, but a niche leader. They are changing the world, at least making life easier for people, through their own way--the innovation subdivisions. Can't you change the world if you join these companies?

You might say that these companies are too big to see my value even if they change the world. If you say so, unless you are planning to start a business, there will always be only a few people, otherwise, you still face a big company, and you do not feel the value of their own problems.

Maybe you'll say it's different! Because this is the company I started, I can feel my value.

Well, your answer already shows that the purpose of entrepreneurship is not to change the world, or that changing the world should not be the purpose of entrepreneurship.

Because if changing the world is the purpose, that work and entrepreneurship is different? is changing the world. and the risk of working a lot less, also not so tired. So, the goal is also achieved, but also a lot of comfort, why do you want to start a business?

Therefore, I do not think that changing the world is the purpose of entrepreneurship.

In fact, the purpose of entrepreneurship is to maximize the value of their own, to find a sense of achievement.

I would like to conclude that entrepreneurship is to be able to influence the world in its own way.

This is actually the essential difference between starting a business and working. For someone who wants to change the world, the watershed of entrepreneurship and work is right here (I emphasize "for a person who wants to change the world" because this article focuses on this idea, which is not true for people who want to start a business with a lot of personal wealth). Because in other people's company, no matter how core you are, the final decision is not what you do, the route is not determined by you, the direction is not you find, although you are changing the world, but the way is not your control. Therefore, if you go out to start a business, it must be because you want to control, otherwise, stay to work, still can change the world. and the creation of their own business, entrepreneurial enterprise, you can control the overall situation, take the biggest responsibility, to provoke a heavy burden, lead the team to do something for the world.

Speaking here, I would also like to say that in fact, the purpose of entrepreneurship, motivation, this is not important. You can be to change the world, can be to make money, you can not want to be ordered, can just because like entrepreneurship ... Beginner, this is not the key, the key is how you carry out, can not insist. That's the point. And in the process of persistence, you may slowly discover that the world is getting better because of you.