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.
"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.
This is how we are raised in Latin America, disapproving or disliking those who earn a lot of money as businessmen.
Latin America does not foster entrepreneurship. Education, specially high school, rises us with the goal of getting a good job, as opposed to owning a business.
The problem is cultural, and has its roots in our educational systems, which pay a lot of attention to the protection of workers, leaving aside those who undertake business project and became businessmen.
The list of reasons for this serious absence begins with the culture of salaried employees, which is instilled at home and in educational institutions.
In Latin America, the general idea is that the success of a young person is his/her school grades, then how soon he/she graduates from the university and, ultimately, how fast he/she gets a good job. It is not customary for personal goals transmitted through family values to be related to being an entrepreneur.