Bill Gates Entrepreneurial Activity

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Bill Gates, Entrepreneurial Activity, Entrepreneurship

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The popular thinking of entrepreneurs in the recent past has often aimed at accomplishing what one wants by studying the opportunities and putting their strategies in shapes that work for them. Besides, entrepreneurs prefer embracing emerging opportunities through sheer persistence and
setting different platforms from the crowd rather than commit to many years of usual beating on the wall, hoping it would transform into a success door. Often, with the best entrepreneurs rarely speaking of every detail in their secrets of success, their excellence is drawn towards the
attributes of passion, persistence and initiatives as the winning prescriptions at the entrepreneurship pitch.

Entrepreneurship is formally put as embracing the risk of starting an enterprise with the information gathered and assembling the resources required without losing the spirit. However, without prior experience in the field, entrepreneurs easily lose heart and are unable to filter through the relevant concepts, thus dooming their ingrained ideas to failure. Despite the absence of a guaranteed formula to attain enterprise success, as prosperous entrepreneurs demonstrate unique paths; their thinking is ingrained to continue acting, learning, building and repeating the cycle as their initial ideas morph over time.

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[...] The dramatic expansion in the company has been in tandem with the unbroken strings of profits despite facing fiercely competitive and fast-changing industry (Hall, 2012). Currently, the company operates in the five segments: Windows & Windows Live Division (Windows Division), Server and Tools, Online Services Division Microsoft Business Division and Entertainment and Devices Division (EDD) (Google Finance, 2013). Far beyond its Redmond lab research it conducts research at the Advanced Technology Labs Cairo in Egypt; Advanced Technology Labs Europe in Aachen, Germany; Advanced Technology Labs Israel; FUSE Labs, Extreme Computing Group (XCG) in Redmond; and Station Q in Santa Barbara, Cambridge (1997), Beijing (1998), Mountain View, and Sadashivnagar (2005) in India (Microsoft Research, 2013). [...]

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[...] How Oprah, Chanel, Trump, Disney and Gates Went from to their Firts Million and How You Can Too. Microsoft Research. (2013, February). Microsoft Research Fast Facts. Retrieved August from http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/press/fastfacts.aspx 19 Perry, D. (2010, November 17). introducing the Future of Microsoft Products in Readiness to the Future of the Competitive Software Industry. Rao, V. (2013, January 30). Bill Gates recalls his 'spontaneous' first date with wife. Retrieved August from http://www.today.com/news/bill-gates-recalls-his-spontaneousfirst-date-wife-1B8176439 Schiff, L. (2013, February Secrets to Bill Gates' Extraordinary Success. [...]

[...] Aside the stereotypical explanations provided in the argument of the imbalance in the entrepreneurial activities, the fear of failure in women erodes confidence in them. As the world witness well-educated and innovative women as men, their entrepreneurial potential need to be harnessed by getting them the resources, induction support, training, and mentoring to move to that next level (Bruni, Gherardi, & Poggio, 2008). For decades, family and business units have been regarded as separate institutions contrary to the present day where they exist as inextricably intertwined. [...]

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