Two years after the Law to Strengthen Entrepreneurship came into force in Guatemala, only 40 companies have been registered under the figure of Entrepreneurship Companies, a situation that is partly explained by the lack of incentives provided by the legal framework.
On January 29, the Law to Strengthen Entrepreneurship came into force, which includes creating training centers and facilitating access to credit for small businessmen.
Guatemalan authorities reported that with the entry into force of the Law, will incorporate entrepreneurship in primary and secondary education, in addition to creating a new figure called Entrepreneurship Society, among other actions.
The practical sharing economy is keeping pace with digital communications and logistics systems finely tuned to all size markets.
And this realization already extends beyond using Airbnb to rent an apartment for vacation or a using Uber to make a journey. If you need a drill for a couple of hours to hang new curtains, why buy it if it is something which afterwards you will only use occasionally? Rent it.
The mere announcement of the arrival in Costa Rica of the private transport network has already generated projects that result in benefits for consumers.
EDITORIAL
Competition is always good, and its actual existence in any market produces better use of available resources, bringing benefits for society in terms of better products and services and reducing costs.
"The box inside which we are locked assumes that all we are doing everything well and that the environment which we are interacting with will not change."
Every day there are more examples of businesses that refute what seems to be real and incontrovertible, in order to generate new ways of doing things to make money.
Alvaro Cedeno's article in Nacion.com is an excellent analysis of using disruptive change as a key to innovation and entrepreneurship:
The best way to generate entrepreneurship and innovation is not bringing people together in boring classrooms led by public officials who will never be entrepreneurs or innovative themselves, but by leaving space in the market for those who do have the courage and skills to be so.
Analysis of the overall growth of Uber, an international company that connects its customers to a transport network using software for mobile phones, is the basis for the development of a concept which states that the greater the freedom of competition is, the better products and services will be for consumers, and the greater economic development.
The feeling of owning your company can not be understood "until you finally experience it: an exquisite satisfaction, seasoned with spicy uncertainty, dressed in the joy of vertigo."
A young businesswoman puts on paper her journey of running her own company, with the conviction of one who knows she has found her way in life.
'...I start the day unexpectedly with a tingling in my hands or an unanswered question.
The State's role is not to teach entrepreneurs how to do things, but to remove obstacles so that they can create wealth.
Editorial
It is remarkable how the role of the State has been misrepresented, especially in some countries in the region. The primary functions of governments are being carried out at half measures or not being done at all: the insecurity of people and goods is increasing, justice is neither swift nor effective, health and education services are only for those who can afford them, and public infrastructure is a far cry from the taxes that correspond to paying for it.
In order to solve problems entrepreneurs are seeking new ways of behaving, while most managers use logical thinking, directly related to established processes.
An article in Nacion.com reports that "... A research team of neuroscientists and academics from business schools in Italy and Switzerland have used an fMRI to capture images of the brains of entrepreneurs and managers who performed a task consisting in the search for alternative approaches to solve a problem, something scholars call 'exploration'. "
If a business owner is not able to solve problems he goes bankrupt and has no income, whereas government workers continue to get a salary, later a pension... and always sleep through the night...
Editorial
The President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, now days away from the end of her term, criticized "...unions and employers for opposing key works in the province of Limón."
To be successful you need a good idea to accompany an indispensable ability and entrepreneurial drive.
A report entitled "Entrepreneurship in Latin America: A Lot of Companies and Little Innovation," prepared by the World Bank (WB), reports that in the region one in three workers are self-employed or a small employer. However, most of them rarely hire workers and remain small, even after decades of operation.
Traditional education punishes errors with bad grades, when in fact the essence of entrepreneurship and innovation is all about trial and error.
Andres Leon, manager of entrepreneurship at the business accelerator in Ciudad del Saber, knows that the first step is to break through the paradigms. And he is the right age to do it: 23.
Alfonso Acosta's article in Prensa.com, reviews the basic concepts that Andres Leon preaches as a consultant in entrepreneurship:
Its well known and because it has never been well addressed, the little access to credit for entrepreneurs remains a problem in Central America.
Analysis by David Casasola in his article on the blog of the National Economic Research Center (CIEN by its initials in Spanish) states that "this does not mean that there are no funds available in the banking system for people who want to start a business, but rather that the characteristics of the majority of entrepreneurs (low levels of education, geographic location, lack of assets to support a loan, etc..) are not compatible with traditional banking criteria for a loan and to pay the high interest rates to an agency which is far away from their community. "
A great business success is never the result of an entrepreneur’s first attempt, but perhaps number 1000, coming after 999 failures whose teachings brought them closer to victory.
Success in business is not the result of an instant or temporary miracle, but rather the fruit of a long history of hard work, effort, trips, falls and retries that ultimately lead to the desired goal.
"Entrepreneurship is not a job, or even a calling, but a thirst."
Successful entrepreneurs - those creatures that we are all now viewing as essential to save the world economy from its troubles - come from different countries, societies, cultural backgrounds and business sectors. There is no single or particular stereotype, however, these individuals have several things in common.