Week 1 Post 2 - Entrepreneurship and Creativity

   Entrepreneurship is driven not only by a desire for wealth, but equally (if not more), from the absolute need for creative people to have a way to express their ideas and create something of value. While an entrepreneur is someone who invests their money into an idea to start a business, often they may be starting that business to have a platform for their ideas, rather than coming up with ideas to in turn make a profitable business. As a creative, an entrepreneur has the goal of "Putting (their) own little dent in the universe." Musicians and entrepreneurs share many steps in the creative process, and many musicians are entrepreneurs themselves. Musicians and entrepreneurs both must observe others in their field long before starting their venture, they both often collaborate to create, and failure is a vital part of their creative processes. To innovate in music and anywhere creative there are 5 prevalent skills: experimenting, networking, questioning, associating, and observing.

   Creativity, or rather creation, stems from successful innovation being applied to the medium that sources the creations. To successfully innovate creations using the 5 skills, you must be able to pioneer new ideas when faced with challenges or a lack of creation, have the social skills necessary to develop positive relationships with other creatives in your field in order to kindle collaboration, question the status quo of creations in your field, associate one thing with another regardless of relationship (or lack thereof) to create something new, and observe your environment to find ideas to challenge or be inspired by. Entrepreneurs use their business as a catalyst to (hopefully) innovate in their field, thus making business an essential component in new creations.