The Entrepreneurship Certificate

The Entrepreneurship Certificate has been in demand in recent years as a certificate of attendance given to participants after training courses run by various institutions or seminars at universities.

The Entrepreneurship Certificate is a document that university students in particular like to collect and think looks smart on their CVs. Yet, as our forebears said, “A person’s mirror is what they do; never mind what they say.”

As I said in my piece “Bodoslama Girişimcilik” (Headlong Entrepreneurship), I do not think entrepreneurship has direct rules and formulas the way the analytical sciences do. Every entrepreneur should find their own formula by carefully analysing the time and circumstances they are in. Although I took a Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship, the business plans, target tables, strategic plans and so on taught on that course struck me as so boring that, had I started out in entrepreneurship by trying to draw up those plans, I would probably have taken no pleasure in the work and might have given up before long.

By the way, I am of course not referring to the compulsory training required to benefit from state support such as the Kosgeb New Entrepreneur Support Package, or to the Entrepreneurship Certificate awarded after that training. You can certainly make use of such support, and when you need documents of this kind to meet the conditions, you may have to obtain them.

Or having an Entrepreneurship Certificate on your CV may help you get noticed in the eyes of Human Resources when the need arises.

But what really matters is the venture itself, and even if you have a zillion certificates, if your venture is not successful, or you do not set a good example as an intrapreneur, the Entrepreneurship Certificate you received will be nothing more than wasted trees.

So what do we say? Let us focus on our work, on our venture. The rest is idle talk 🙂