I think entrepreneurship is  probably the
most misunderstood word that I've known.
I'm going to spend a couple of minutes
telling you what I think it really is
and what I think it really isn't. I'm
Murray Hurps, Director of Entrepreneurship
for UTS. It's been 20 years being an
entrepreneur and seven years helping
thousands of people to start and grow
companies. And to me, entrepreneurship is
just deciding what you work on for
yourself instead of being told what to
work on for someone else.
Entrepreneurship allows you to have the
impact that you want to have on the
world in the way that you want to have it.
Just solve a problem that you
understand for people that you
understand and you're an entrepreneur.
That's it, it doesn't need to be
more complicated than that.
Entrepreneurship doesn't need special
skills, you'll be able to develop skills
over time. It doesn't need genius ideas
as long as you know the problem that
you're solving. It doesn't need you to
know all the answers as long as you're
experimenting and testing, you'll figure
them out over time. It doesn't need you
to take a big risk, you can start small
and grow. It doesn't need money.
Entrepreneurs, I find are wonderful at
using what they have to do what they
need to do. And most of all
entrepreneurship is not just for certain
kinds of people, I think everyone is able
to be an entrepreneur and everyone has the potential to become a wonderful one.
I think, really, entrepreneurship is
misunderstood, people think it's a
complicated thing or a hard thing or
something for only certain kinds of
people, and they're wrong. It's not those
things, entrepreneurship for me is a
liberating thing that allows people to
have the impact they want to have on the world
and everyone needs to be thinking
about it as something simple and
meaningful that they can do. So, my
question for you is, do you want to
decide what you do for yourself instead
of being told what to do for someone else?
