Seeking to build an entrepreneurship community
Developing an entrepreneurship community is something that The Entrepreneurial Network (TEN) Habitat is looking to do in order to help develop the entrepreneurial mindsets of persons.
Word of this came from the co-founder of TEN Habitat, Selwyn Cambridge, as he recently briefed the media at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (LESC) about one of the TEN Habitat’s upcoming events. Cambridge revealed that their next event will be the Female Founders Boot Camp that will take place May 10-11. He explained that it will be a boot camp dedicated to female entrepreneurship and will also be staged in their soon-to-be launched innovation hub and co-working space. He added that they plan to launch this hub in Bridgetown and divulged that it is a part of TEN Habitat’s plan to thoroughly develop and build a community around entrepreneurship.
Cambridge noted that through the support of corporations like the Barbados Public Workers’ Co-operative Credit Union (BPWCCU) and CIBC FirstCaribbean, and a few others, they were able to develop investor-ready businesses that would be able to generate widespread employment and create foreign exchange even though they were a non-profit organisation.
The Co-Founder went on to say that it was important for potential entrepreneurs to understand that entrepreneurship is not generally about self-employment, rather it was about individuals seeking to create a difference, solve big problems and make a change. Though there is good reason to push self-employment and develop ideas for persons to create lifestyle businesses and substance-type businesses, Cambridge explained that what TEN Habitat sought to do was create early learning so that persons were able to understand the transition that needs to occur from self-employment to entrepreneurship to enterprise development.
He added that persons joining the programme will be able to be exposed to the different kinds of experiences that one will encounter when journeying to entrepreneurship and noted that it was to be viewed as a competitive arena. If you want to compete and succeed as an entrepreneur, Cambridge mentioned that your mindset must grow from a local one to global.