Very Short Interview No. 1

My Interview is to a very important businessman in my country called Ricardo Abuawad. Ricardo started his own business with help from nobody. He is the creator of the most consumed cookies in Bolivia called “Mabels”, and then after more then 10 years of experience in the factory he decided to sell his factory to Nestlé. I interviewed him and asked three questions.

1.What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?

An entrepreneur is a person that has vision. It is important to visualize first your goals because entrepreneurs know perfectly what their goals are. Also, being entrepreneurs means a person that has experience, and has failed a couple of times. Most entrepreneurs have been though hard times and thanks to those bad moments is that they had learned to walk in the correct path.

2.What do you think I should learn in an entrepreneurship course?

I think you will learn in this course skills of how to be an entrepreneur. However, being an entrepreneur is something you will have to build with your hard work. In ta future, people that know you will see if you learned something from this course.

3.What do you wish you had been taught in school before setting out on your own path as an entrepreneur? 

I studied nuclear engineering; therefore, nobody thought me how to be a successful men. Therefore, my answer is that the only thing that set my path as an entrepreneur was motivation and necessity. However, it can help some people but it is completely different in every person.

This interview made me reflect that success in the business world is all about motivation and hard work. The only person that decides whether you are going to be successful person is you. Entrepreneurs set their goals first ,and then make them happen.