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Question answered in Quora - What are the benefits of learning coding if you want to be an entrepren


So your real goal is to be an Entrepreneur. Because you are asking about coding, I am guessing you want to be a software entrepreneur.

Let us take a step back, entrepreneur and coding are two different things.

i) - To be an entrepreneur you need to provide a service or a product that solves someone's problem effectively

ii) - Which means you have to find that problem and then find people that have that problem

iii) - Once you find the problem and talk to the people that have that problem, confirm that the problem is big enough, it is worth spending some time coming up with a solution, in other words confirm that the market size is big

iv) - Once that is confirmed, then work on your solution, come up with a solution that not only solves that problem effectively but also much easier to switch to, yes to be able to switch easily is very important because, only then the people will switch, if you think about it, there are so many innovative solutions that have failed and did not take off like the inventors expected, because change management is a challenge, people don't like change, especially in enterprises

v) - Then your solution doesn't have to be perfect, come up with a pretty good first prototype, solution first then give it to the people, they will tell you what you need to do, what features you need to add, what capabilities you need to include so they will pay for it

vi) - Then keep adding and keep selling, keep making money, that is what is Entreprneurship is all about

So here you don't necessarily need to be a coder to solve that problem, you can outsource it, once you find the problem and understand the problem really well, so you can articulate clearly what needs to be made in terms of a design and or technical specification, what the solution needs to look like? you can give that spec to a programmer and get your product developed. So that is the easy part. So the difficult part is identifying the problem, and then delivering the solution. I would focus in that, it is always about "Developing Products Delivering Solutions"


ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Puga Sankara is the co-founder of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology consisting of Smart Gladiator Wearable Scanguns, Tablets, Mobile Tech & Apps for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard, texting&video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com

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