Some days ago I stumbled on a post on Facebook,it was been said that between entrepreneur and an investor who is the greatest?. Naturally such question stirred up an argument as to which of the two is the greatest. This prompt me to bring it to readcash to hear your honest opinion on it. Meanwhile I also want to add my own view in the subject matter.
First, who is an investor and who is an Entrepreneur. An Investor is a person who invests money or anything substantial with the aim of making profit or for profit making motive. To invest is to commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain; to spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.
Investors are seen everywhere, ranging from people buying shares in the stock market to people investing in landed properties or real estate investment and so on. An investor tries to convert opportunities to monetary gains. They try to turn existing opportunities to wealth. A pure investor is concerned about his profits and nothing else.
What about an Entrepreneur? Personally to me, I will rather say Entrepreneur has my vote in the comparison. An entrepreneur is a person that organizes, controls, coordinate and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risks. Now at this point, don't narrow ur concept of an entrepreneur to a person that found a business, Entrepreneur go much a long way. Entrepreneur may not necessarily be a business owner. One of the thing associated with entrepreneurs are the fact that they are inventors and that they create opportunities. People have been having a wrong notion of an entrepreneur, they think an entrepreneur is all about that big boss who founded a company and has workers working for him, hell no. Entrepreneurs are known for seeking for problems and finding ways to solve it. Consider Mark the founder of Facebook, he noticed some shortcomings in how people communicate with each others, he saw a problem of communication, he solved it by introducing Facebook. Entrepreneurs are problem solver, we all have great technopreneurs who have invented great technologies for our ultimate use. Consider Michael Faraday, they all recognized a need. Making profits is not their ultimate goal but solving problems.
An Investor can act in the capacity of an entrepreneur and vice versa. What I meant by that is this, take for instance, Mr K discovered in his community that people there have the problems in reading and writing and that affects them negatively even in their businesses as they cannot interact in a meaningful conversation with their learned customers. He then decided to open a school to teach them basic literacy. Now Mr K is an entrepreneur because he recognized a need and decides to make provision for schools. Yet he is also an investor because he assumed that by investing his money to build a school, his returns will be paid in folds in terms of tuition fees that will be collected.
Now between the two, without one interfering with the role of others I mean a pure entrepreneur and a total investor, who is your choice, lemme know in the comments box and give your reasons as well. Thanks for reading.
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