Although young people face many difficulties when starting a business, it is exciting to be able to work for yourself. Modern society provides an excellent opportunity for young people to start a business. The Internet and various emerging technologies have lowered the threshold for starting a business and opened the door for everyone with entrepreneurial ambitions.

Many years ago, the threshold for self-employment was very high. Young people in their twenties had to face many difficulties if they wanted to start a business. For young people under the age of 20, starting a business was tantamount to A fantasy.

This situation has greatly improved in the 21st century, but young entrepreneurs still face many doubts about their credibility in terms of financing.

In Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America, people generally believe that young people are unlikely to succeed in starting a business, and they will only be a burden to society. Therefore, young people in these areas must break through when starting a business. The shackles of this old concept.

Although young people face many difficulties when starting a business, it is still exciting to be able to work for yourself. Modern society provides an excellent opportunity for young people to start a business. The Internet and various emerging technologies have lowered the threshold for starting a business and opened the door for everyone with entrepreneurial ambitions.

Young entrepreneurs must recognize the difficulties

At the beginning of starting a business, young entrepreneurs must have a full understanding of various difficulties. Only by being aware of these difficulties can you correct your mentality and actively find ways to overcome them when facing them.

Credit Questions

I remember the first time I met with the CEO of a big hotel. I tried my best to convince him that my consulting company, although small and inconspicuous, was a great company. Indeed, he has the ability to help his hotel achieve reasonable growth in sales and profits. But the result can be imagined. Because I was still a young boy at the time and had no successful performance, I failed to win this business in the end.

As a young entrepreneur, you will definitely face the problem of how to win the trust of customers and even future employees, and how to convince them that you have the determination to start a business and the ability to fulfill your promises. Establishing credibility will play a decisive role in the success of a business.

Secular Prejudice

In some parts of Africa, people usually have too much distrust of entrepreneurs if they are very young. Although I don’t know what the situation is like in your area, everyone is somewhat skeptical of young entrepreneurs. This is a difficulty that must be overcome. When given the opportunity, you must respond to those doubts with a confident and professional attitude and excellent work. Excellent work performance will dispel all the doubts people have about you because of your age, and you will quickly win everyone's trust.

How young entrepreneurs can win respect and achieve success

If someone doesn’t take your words seriously and rejects you impatiently, please don’t be frustrated and desperate, but learn to keep your face. It has to be thicker.

By mastering the 7 suggestions below, young entrepreneurs will make a difference.

1. Use the power of technology

In today's era, technology and the Internet have created a large number of young entrepreneurs. Twenty years ago or even more than ten years ago, starting a business was not easy. At that time, capital and other barriers were very high. Today, technology has changed the situation a lot. Social media companies like NairaBrains and TechCrunch no longer require much startup capital. Now, you can start a company with $2,000 without incurring expenses such as warehousing and inventory. Many companies with assets worth millions of dollars were founded by young people with little experience in the world. When they started their businesses, they only had enough capital to maintain the company's operations. Therefore, today’s entrepreneurial achievements are all due to technology.

If you don’t have a lot of funds in your hands, but you want to start your own business and make the business run successfully, you can use the power of technology to solve the problem of lack of funds. At present, this is the best solution. If your idea is good enough, it is likely to attract the interest of other investors. If they are optimistic about your idea, they will be willing to provide you with sufficient funds and help you achieve profitability.

Internet and technology companies have turned more and more young people in their 20s into millionaires. Therefore, young entrepreneurs can focus on entrepreneurial projects that can be completed using technology and have huge market potential, then find suitable partners and invest fully. This will make your entrepreneurial journey easier.

2. Learn from successful experiences

A few years ago when I was still in college, a colleague and I had been trying to start a company on our own. Later, I began to realize that using importance of resources. If there is a ditch blocking your way, you can build a board over it and walk across it. If you think you can solve everything on your own, you are doomed to fail. You may be good at programming, but you just put your ideas into practice, complete the website construction and launch it online. So how can you promote your website, attract early users, and continuously improve it by relying solely on your own strength? How can I raise more funds from investors?

It doesn’t cost a lot to learn from other people’s experience. You can make up for your lack of experience by letting experienced people join your team in return for equity in the company. You can also ask many people directly for relevant experience. Even if you can get an interview with a client, you still need to find someone more reliable and experienced to sign the business contract for you. You can then attract more experienced people to your team. This way, you can sit back and take command, letting those with more experience help you achieve your business goals.

3. Be brave, confident and creative

Being brave and confident is the only way to survive in the business world. Do all your preparations carefully and always stay confident. If you get into trouble because you are brave and confident, then you just need to be braver and more confident to get out of it. Although this is not an absolute truth, from personal experience, young entrepreneurs must be brave and confident enough to win the respect they deserve. Once you show a hint of timidity, you're doomed. Don't let yourself become intimidated, but don't be too boastful or too proud either.

Young entrepreneurs must be creative and able to use non-traditional methods to solve the problems they face, and people will respect you for this. If you are young, ambitious and creative, you are not far away from success. Let creativity be your entrepreneurial advantage.

4. Establish your own think tank

There is another good way to learn from the experience of others: establish your own think tank. The think tank doesn't have to be formal, and members don't have to know each other. When you encounter critical problems, you can consult them and seek solutions and suggestions. I reorganized the company last year. The first thing I did was to get to know some experienced and capable professionals who could promote the company's development through various relationships and form my own think tank. Whenever I'm in doubt, I go to them for advice, and some of them really agree with what I'm doing. So I suggest you learn from this approach.

How do young entrepreneurs form a think tank?

It is not easy to form a decent think tank. You may not yet have the experience or resources to meet people in your industry. The only way to solve this problem is to actively network and meet the people you need to know. Through LinkedIn and some other social networking sites, you may easily meet people you would not normally have the opportunity to meet.

Establish a connection first, do not rush to make a request, it is wise to make a request after getting to know each other well and establishing a trusting relationship with your new friends. Actively work to earn their trust and respect, and then politely explain to them that you are starting a company and think their experience will be valuable to your company. Let them know that because they are very busy at work, you hope that they will only serve as business consultants, and promise not to take up too much of their time, let alone disturb them with minor issues.

Finding the right consultant is not easy, and many will reject your request due to lack of time. Although some individuals agree to be consultants, they may not have time to provide you with advice over the phone. They may respond to you in detail via email or find time to meet with you in person. Therefore, the sooner entrepreneurs understand this, the better.

Start by making a list of people who can provide advice for your business, then contact them one by one before making a request. If two or three of them end up agreeing to be your advisors, it will be of great benefit to you.

5. Social networks are crucial

In the process of starting a business, social media networks may be the best way for you to find the right people and teams.

With the help of social media networks, you can recruit the best helpers, obtain the investment and advice needed for company development, attract excellent consultants to join the team, and reach many target customers without spending too much cost.

If you are a young entrepreneur, then social media will be a very powerful and important tool for you.

Build reputation: Improving reputation is like starting a fire, it requires the help of "word of mouth". First, entrepreneurs must determine which talent or event they want to be respected for, and then find ways to let others know about it and quickly start building a reputation for themselves. If you already have a certain reputation in your industry, then being young won't be a problem for you. For example: If you are known for your firm and wise management style, you will find that your age will be insignificant and people will start to accept you because of your reputation and no longer care about your age.

6. Accept and promote positive changes

Today’s young people have an admirable characteristic, that is, they have strong adaptability to change. In this day and age, you have to be more flexible if you want to be successful. Only by constantly breaking limitations and actively making changes can you achieve success. At the beginning of the change, you may encounter all kinds of resistance, but if you have enough courage to implement the change, you will be praised by everyone for it in the future.

7. The art of organizational management (setting goals, checkpoints and working hard to achieve goals)

It is difficult for people who do things unorganized to become good managers. Until recently, organizational skills and goal setting were among the biggest challenges for me. Entrepreneurs must be able to formulate short-term and long-term plans for their own goals, use the long-term plan as a guide, flexibly implement short-term plans, and make appropriate and reasonable adjustments when conditions permit.

If you show a lack of organizational skills and orderliness in business and various activities, you will lose the respect of others. As a young entrepreneur, this is certainly not the outcome you want. Entrepreneurs must carefully formulate plans and strictly implement them according to the target plan. Before a meeting or meeting, be sure to make a detailed plan and have the necessary information and data.