Entrepreneurship in Textile Crafts
1. Basic entrepreneurship in textile crafts
Entrepreneurship comes from the word entrepreneurial and business. The meaning of the word warrior, main, elephant, brave, exemplary, and honest, while effort is the activity carried out. Entrepreneurship senses that people are smart or talented about new products, determine new ways of production, organize activities to hold new products, organize capital, and market them. Entrepreneurs are called entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial entrepreneurs is the ability to create something new creatively and innovatively to realize added value.
2. Simulation and Entrepreneurial Motivation in Textile Crafts
This textile aesthetic of Indonesian textile fabric is very unique and distinctive so it is in demand not only by textile craft lovers in Indonesia but also abroad. It is an entrepreneurial opportunity in the field of textiles and products from textiles such as fashion and interior complements.
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3. Entrepreneurial Character and Attitude
a. confident
It is a guide to a person’s attitude and beliefs in the face of a task or job, which is internal, very relative, and dynamic, and is widely determined by the ability to start, execute, and complete a job.
b. Task-oriented and results-oriented
A person who always prioritizes tasks and results is one who always puts values first, profit-oriented, perseverance, and hard work.
c. Courage to take risks
Entrepreneurs are people who prefer more challenging efforts to achieve success or failure than less challenging ventures.
d. Leadership
An entrepreneur must have the nature of leadership, a pioneer of exemplary.
e. Future-oriented
The key is with the ability to create something new and different from what exists now
f. Creativity and innovation
Innovative entrepreneurs are the people who have the following characteristics:
- Never satisfied with how it is done today, although it is not good enough.
- always pouring imagination into his work
- always want to look different
The requirements for becoming a successful entrepreneur are as follows:
- have a positive mental attitude
- have expertise in their field
- have a creative mindset
- diligently try new things (innovative)
- have a high fighting spirit (motivation) and high commitment
- able to anticipate various risks and competition
g. Making textile handicraft products
The production tools used are easy to come by in the area and the surrounding environment, making products through proper planning means to produce basic ideas that are
unique and new. Craft products made should consider entrepreneurial opportunities
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4. Causes of Entrepreneurial Success and Failure
1. Entrepreneurial Success
To become an entrepreneur, the support of others who
are related to the business we manage. An entrepreneur must be willing to face the challenges and risks that exist. Risk is used as a boost to progress, with the risk, an entrepreneur will be more advanced.
According to Murphy and Peek translated in his book by Bukhari Alam, there are eight steps that include the success of an entrepreneur in developing his profession, namely:
- Hard work is the capital of an entrepreneur’s success. Every successful entrepreneur takes a real hard job – really in his business.
- Cooperation with other Cooperation with others can be realized in a social environment as the first step to developing a business. Entrepreneurs should be generous, sociable, friendly, and well-liked and avoid actions that harm others.
- Good performance is emphasized on the appearance of honest and disciplined behavior
- Belief, An entrepreneur must be able to be confident in himself, namely the confidence to progress and be based on perseverance and patience
- Good at making decisions, an entrepreneur should be able to make decisions. If faced with difficult alternatives, in a careful way of consideration, do not hesitate in making good decisions according to beliefs.
- Want to add Science, By adding science, especially in the field of business, it is expected that an entrepreneur can support the ability and progress in the business
- Ambition to advance, Without strong ambition, an entrepreneur will not be able to achieve success. Strong ambition, must be balanced with hard work and good self-discipline
- Good at communicating, an entrepreneur should be able to attract others with good words, polite, honest, and confident. Thus it will give the impression of others becoming interested and people will believe in what is conveyed.
2. Entrepreneurial Failure
The cause of failure in the business is generally caused by 4 main factors, including:
1. Lack of funds for capital
2. Lack of business experience
3. Absence of proper and mature planning
4. The suitable interest in the field of business that is being investigated.
According to Alex S. Niti Semito, the entrepreneur’s failure to run his business is divided into two, namely:
1. Avoidable failure
This actually does not need to happen, because entrepreneurs can avoid and can be anticipated in advance For example error managing the company, no mature plan, poor service, etc.
2. Inevitable failures are difficult or unavoidable failures such as natural disasters, wars, fires, accidents.
- Causes of failure to conduct business:
- Less tenacious and quick despair
- Less diligent and less conscientious
- Dishonest and ins dexterous
- Error in choosing a business field
- Less initiative and less creative
- Start a business with no experience with loan capital
- Take credit without careful consideration
- Less able to adjust to consumer tastes
- Poor service
- The number of doubtful receivables
- A large number of wastes and irregularities
- Error calculating the base price
- Equating the company as a social entity
- It’s hard to separate between personal property and corporate property
- Frequent congestion
- Lack of supervision
