Find Business Opportunities at Young Ages

Build a business when you're young?
Hmm ... it sounds fun and exciting.
Are you one of those people who wants to have a business at a young age?
Or are you a young professional who also wants to build a business as an additional income?
Has it ever occurred to you to invite your colleagues/friends to build a business together?

Having a business/business at a young age is something that can be said to be brave and great. Brave, because of course many risks in it. Great, because at a young age, we have more relative time than when we run it as we age and ahead of retirement.

Doing business in young age requires some preparation and planning. Starting from the capital is often a constraint, to the mental preparation problems that are often forgotten.

Well, in this article, we will discuss various experiences of young Indonesians who successfully build their business when young.

We will learn a lot about the story of their journey of starting a business, ranging from tips to success, to the various things we should avoid. Curious what?

Let's peek their success tips !.

1. Principle 3M from Lena Thong
   "In business, there must be 3 M (want, Able, Money). If one cannot exist partner "
   There is one important tip in business from Lena Thong, CEO of a ready-made office services company. According to him, for young people who want to establish a business, need to check the 3 factors of Will, Capabilities, and Capital. Will comes from yourself, the passion. The desire to run a business with a million visions and dreams behind it and our love for something so want to seriously pursue it.
   Lena admitted interested in the business of providing ready-made office is because he was interested in the world of property. It captures the excellent opportunities that many small companies that need instant offices will emerge. For this reason, Lena executes her leaders.

Ability. The second important factor to have when building a business is our capacity to run it. This is related to our readiness both in terms of insight into the business world, knowledge of the field we will be working on, as well as managerial skills.
The last is money or capital. So what if we do not have one of them? Yup, the solution is to partner!
For example, if you have a passion in the field of fashion and then equip your dire with various insights of the fashion world, but lack of capital. Look for investors!

Conversely, if you have the desire and money/capital but do not know how to run the business, look for partners/partners as the management.

Terms of Business by Lena Thong
• Know / Master the field to be cultivated in business
• There should be opportunities
• Passion

"Many people who think rationally will give up when faced with obstacles. Often passion is what keeps us trying.

1. Win Like The Champion
   Second success tips in doing business at a young age is a mental "Win Like The Champion"
   What does it mean?
   We must have the mind to be a winner, not a loser.
   Did you know the difference between winner and champion?
   A winner (winner) can be a winner sometime, but not necessarily able to repeat the victory. Only a champion can win, again and again, over and over again.
   so also in running a business, we must be ready for the game and the struggle relentlessly. This will add to our appreciation of the business we are living.
   When we have achieved the target or the success of the dream, we really won it like a champion who made it through various stages of the game. Not just a sense of pride for just facing a small hurdle.

2. Do not focus too financially
   There is one interesting story coming from Google headquarters. Charlie Ayers, Google's first recruited cook, has a mission of providing food that can make a lot of computer whiz at Google, from breakfast, lunch, to dinner. He must also create an atmosphere for people to arrive early and come home later. Ayers also reduced the pizza and replaced it with sushi, a food he believed to be good for the brain. As a result, every employee of Google is so fond of cooking and feel at home for long in the office.
   From Charlie, we can learn valuable lesson that in doing business, not merely about money and profit. The most important thing when we build a business is to run it by heart. Indeed profit is an important factor in business, but not all the success of a company is measured by profit. The extent to which a company is able to influence markets and consumers and make meaningful changes in their lives is also an expensive achievement.

3. Do not be stingy to share knowledge
   Other successful tips that come from the young Indonesian businessmen who successfully summarized Billy Boen in his book, Top Words 2 is a generosity to share knowledge.
   In running a business, we can not just rely on ourselves without sharing lessons and experiences with others. By often sharing knowledge with business colleagues and junior, we will get a myriad of benefits. Among other things is a stronger relationship with other business actors, the existence of an increasingly widespread, and science with increasingly because we are often re-time sharing.

4. Recognize the ability and direction to be addressed
   "Begin with the end mind" (Stephen R. Covey In his 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
   One of the keys to success in business is to determine and imagine the peak of your business. What do you want and want from the business?
   Starting from the end, when usually starting from the beginning, starting from the beginning. Why start with the end? Why do we start from the end? That end is the hope and goal that all of us desire. This means that our business better we must set goals first. This is so we have a clear focus.
   Thus, when we already have a focus without realizing all the potential that we have will be poured on the goal. Our bodies, our energy, our minds and our hearts will move with sure and convincing steps to achieve that goal.
   By imagining the end, you can easily find out what details you need to make it happen.

5. Integrity, Passion, and Fun
   "Lack of passion is often the thing that distinguishes between failure and success" (Donald Trump)
   One of the principles strongly held by Ligwina Hananto, one of the leading financial planners in starting a business is Integrity, Passion, and Fun.
   In addition to integrity, another important factor a new businessman must have is passion and fun. Working with passion can help you get up immediately when you encounter a problem. Passion will be a strong reason for someone to do what he wants from the beginning. In addition, in business, we also have to run it with pleasure. Despite having to be professional and serious about working on a business, make your business as a fun vehicle.

6. Being, do and have. Focus on self-immolation
   The last important tip before starting a business is to pay attention to 3 factors: "being, do, and have". Of these three things, the first obligation we have does not do and have but being. It means that, before we decide to do and have something, make sure we've entrenched ourselves in all our knowledge and skills. Because the business will only succeed in the hands of those who deserve success.
   are you one of them ?