The Reasons for Becoming an Entrepreneur

A chain of unpredicted events happened. Azerbaijan made a war. Soon after it Soviet Union was collapsed which led to the collapse of the economies nearly in all countries of the former Soviet Union. The 90s of the 20th century was a hard time for the Armenian people and the scientists in particular. It became clear that for the next 10 years no scientific researches will take place. An outflow of brain took place mainly to USA. The majority of the people were leaving the country for Russian Federation, Europe and the USA.

The choice of a small number of scientists who had survived was to stay in their native town. Arthur was one of them. He was a peaceful person who was eager to work all days long in his laboratory without having any interaction with people other than his coworkers. But the life had changed a lot and Arthur had nothing to do but to find any job for keeping his family.

In 1991 together with his friend Arthur founded “Academic” High School and was a teacher of physics for two year there. The school is for the children with good abilities for physics and mathematics. It still exists and is well known for its graduates. I am very pleased to mention that I am a graduate of that school too.

In 1995 Arthur was requested to be the head of “Magnon” Institute of the Space Industry. It is proper to say the head of the sample-making department as it was the only thing which remained after the earthquake. The sample-making department had variety of equipment flexible enough for producing anything made of metals. But the equipment was not designed for mass production and had no distinct purpose. So they decided to enter the business and make production. But HOW to produce and what is even harder to answer is WHAT to produce was the question? None of them had any business background. It was a strange Company. The accountant used to be an engineer the night watchman had been an architect and the blue collars were either Candidates of Physics and Mathematics or Engineering Sciences.

They tried to produce bicycle, heater, coffee grinder and even spoon. Everything was in vain. They had no income. The only thing they had a lot was debts. Arthur realized that a core change must be made as soon as possible.