VISION: OPPORTUNITY
In many respects the entrepreneur makes her own opportunity. Often the “event” and the opportunity can be synonymous. By luck, choice, by intention or invention, an individual may create a situation that becomes the opening portal to a new venture. Inventions and new technology are usually a response to some predetermined need. The creation of the paper clip, so simple a device, was the answer to keeping pieces of paper together and organized. The invention of a smaller computer was the response to the need for an on-board space capsule control centre. However, it was the vision of how a small computer could be applied to public use that inspired the PC.