Technology in entrepreneurship: the perfect union? [Sponsored]

For many people, the 21st century is a golden age of opportunity and success. The number of people that have shunned the conventional career route and instead chosen to forge their path has risen exponentially in the past two decades.

However, these entrepreneurs all owe their successes to one thing — the internet. This marvellous era of free information and services has catapulted many to the top of the corporate world, but is it a perfect marriage of human and artificial intelligence? We’re going to be examining the unique relationship that exists here, and seeing if there is, in fact, a link between man and machine at the highest levels of business.

Information: freely given

To begin with, let’s take a look at how technology has provided a way for the average person to succeed. The sum knowledge in the world is vast and almost limitless, and it’s all on this free to access repository. It doesn’t take much contemplation to see that with the aid of the internet, you could learn anything.

And for many businesspeople, that’s exactly how it all began. They took to the internet in droves, furiously assimilating mountains of information about business strategies, marketing tactics, customer service, sales campaigns. These are the people who learned how to code a website at nine or wrote their first poem at 7. They are the CEO and founders of major corporations like Microsoft and Facebook. But they all had one thing in common – the internet.

The aptitude to learn?

However, despite this information, many don’t utilise it in that way. A lot of people don’t learn how to create a company or learn a language or trade stocks.

For many, it comes down to a willingness to learn from a young age. As Mr Tom Whale, marketing manager at the Oxford Summer School pointed out, ‘we get a fresh wave of keen young minds every year. Their appetite for learning is matched only by their enthusiasm, and their passion for succeeding. They’re our future visionaries and high-flyers because they’ve put the work in and wanted to succeed’.

Exclusive status?

If you’re reading this, you might conclude that we feel education is only for a handful of people. That’s quite the opposite – we believe it’s for all. What we’re getting at here, however, is that the reason people succeed is that they embrace technology for being a force for change. The link between entrepreneurs and technology is that one encompasses all the benefits the other so openly offers.

To summarise, we believe that the internet is a blessing, and it intertwines with business and entrepreneurship at the highest levels. In a world where you have limitless resources and tools, anyone can form a company that keeps them rich for life, or changes the world. But it involves looking at the internet as being less of a place to look at pictures of cats and talk to people and more of a place for self-improvement. We’d love it if more and more people embraced the web as a learning tool because we know it offers limitless potential.

This article is sponsored by Oxford Royale Academy.