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Eric Schiffer is a top 10 American entrepreneur and author who spends most of his recent times leading an equity firm – Patriarch – and holding speeches at various conferences and ceremonies. At the same time, he hasn’t forgotten his first hobby though – research operations. He conducts advanced research studies to share them with the world. This is how he started his career as well; although things were way less professional back them. According to Eric Schiffer, one of the entrepreneurship secrets stays in identifying the opportunity. If you fail at this step, the whole process will be a failure and just another mistake to learn from.

While identifying the opportunity, you need to take in consideration the unexpected events from your activities, the differences between the current situation and the one you hope for or the possibility to get a better service in a faster and more effective way. At the same time, the structural changes of a sector or the market are just as important. The same goes for any type of changes, starting with the demographical ones and ending with the lifestyle ones. Don’t forget about the new technologies and techniques. Once you have this first step covered, you can go further.

Eric Schiffer talks about entrepreneurship like it is part of his life. But it actually is. He started his first so called business when he was 13 years old. He plucked some of the grass from a local park and sold it as super grass. What was so special about it? Nothing particularly, except for the fact that his favorite team 49ers had just won a game on it. If you take a closer look at this little opportunity, Eric Schiffer followed the first step in a perfect manner.

Later on, his first two businesses were built after a clear and effective sample. The concept of those two software development businesses was to answer an existing request and need of the market and to fulfill some basic criteria, such as being unique, cover the most important aspects or be flexible. At the same time, the concept had to be resistant enough for the market to generate the wanted income. Considering that the first company is now a growing learning center, you can say that Eric Schiffer actually knew what he was doing. It is no longer a surprise why he is so popular today and considered to be a modern role model.