Characteristics of entrepreneurs

Passion

Entrepreneurs should be more passion-driven by their desire to make a difference. It sustains the entrepreneur during difficult times with easy problem-solving skills. For a business to survive during the downtime, an entrepreneur needs self-driven passion

Commitment

Commitment is a crucial characteristic for an entrepreneur to access various investors to his business and pull out when necessary. The entrepreneur needs to be the master of his own game, providing the needed support to his business whenever necessary.

Coach-driven

Entrepreneurs should receive feedback to improve on critical areas that mostly lead to the business’s detriment. They should be able to learn from time to time as market demand and preferences change over time to remain afloat and reduce the losses incurred

Mastery

For entrepreneurs to be successful, they should respect their resources, test relevant solutions, and provide quick, reliable solutions to any problem. An entrepreneur should be able to use the least amount of resources to bring out a large yield that can lead to profit optimization.

Decisive

An entrepreneur needs to do what is needed of him without any form of procrastination. They should not let opportunities pass by but instead seize the moment and get the job done.

Defining a business idea is a concept that is centred on the product or service to improve its financial gain.

Market and marketing

A market is an arena, where buying and selling of goods and services are conducted, while marketing promotes a business and sells goods and services.

Emmanuel Addo
Founder

Emmanuel Addo is the founder of the Young Global Leaders Network, an international non-governmental organization registered in six (6) countries namely, Ghana, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan and has a membership strength of over 15,000 young black professionals, students, graduates, and aspiring leaders.

The organization also operates in 25 other African countries. Emmanuel also doubles as the chief convener and founder of the Young African Leaders Summit, one of the largest continental youth summits in Africa.  

Currently works at Kingston University as a Business Engagement Team Member in their Partnerships and Engagement Department. 

He characterizes energy, integrity, result-oriented, and ground-breaking service in each detail of strategic management, change management, stakeholder management, and leadership acquaintances.
Emmanuel owns a core background in Sociology and Psychology from the University of Ghana.

Leveraging his experience as a youth activist and a dynamic young man, Emmanuel founded the Young Global Leaders Network, a youth organization that comprises young diplomats, young politicians, and aspiring politicians, business/entrepreneurial business leaders with the aim of championing a mutual agenda for the African youth and promoting youth participation in governance as well as promoting entrepreneurial culture.
Emmanuel nurtures an environment of teamwork and has expertise in data collection and analysis as well as both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Emmanuel worked as an Associate Lecturer at the London College of Advanced Management where he delivered a wide range of business management courses that involved principles of marketing, leadership, operation management, and research methods. Emmanuel has always maintained high teaching and learning standards to ensure that his students’ stand out in academic achievements and successful progression. As a stout believer and passionate key player in volunteering; Emmanuel creates quality time to giving back gladly to his community what he has learned and to educate individuals with free consultancy on career development. He is a leader anyone would love to look up to and with great integrity, commitment, and passion to make the world a better place.
Emmanuel worked as Qualifications Manager at the Open University in the UK.

Emmanuel is also the founder of Kickstart Innovation Hub Ltd, the entrepreneurial hub of Young Global Leaders Network.