Getting Started...Looking back

[iamivanlee]

I posted the following in reply to a new user who stated hating authority as his driving g=factor in wanting to embrace entrepreneurship. Since i could definatly relate i responded. While looking back however i realized some lessons i learned that i think may be valuable to many others starting on the wonderful road of entrepreneurship for the first time. So if you feel like getting a qucik nugget of information gleaned from ones hard learnded life lessons please read on....

Hey fellow kindred spirit,

Hating authority was my foremost consideration when i first started experimenting with entrepreneurship. I just felt like i could spend 8 hrs a day for a regular salry whil making someone else rich OR i could spend my day making myself rich.

Back then it was an easy choice but today looking back i realize just how lucky i was that i really made it. I made many mistakes along the way and learned many lessons the hard way.

Lesson #1. LESS THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU WANNA DO AND MORE ACTULLY DOING WHAT YOU WANNA DO.

Looking back i realize that i spent way too much time trying to learn and research what i wnated to do. Instead of actully doing it. The best way i can explain is its equivalant to learning how to ride a bike. You can read and theorize about it until the cows come home. Until you get on that sucker and fall down a few times and then fiannly peddle that bad boy for a little distance you are never gonna quite get it.

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[noob]

Why do most entrepreneurs have such a negative thought process. I very much dislike the words "making someone else rich or i could spend my day making myself rich". That isn't what an entrepreneur represents. There is absolutely nothing wrong with people who choose to follow their passion if being an employee is what makes them happy.

Entrepreneurship doesn't just represent "getting rich" although the rewards are profound. I can't agree with people who have this kind of diluted way of thinking. Hopefully there are better reasons as to why you wanted to become an entrepreneur than hating your boss even though he is helping the economy out by providing jobs, the one you once had.

Every business, as it gets bigger and bigger, will probably at some point start hiring employees themselves to help the business grow. Would you want all your employees to feel the way you do about you as you did with your employer. Lets think more positively and collabortively than that.

[bananaman]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with people who choose to follow their passion if being an employee is what makes them happy.


Entrepreneurship doesn't just represent "getting rich" although the rewards are profound.

I agree with both sentences.

[byrneof]

It's all about being happy. Different strokes for different folks.

Anyone who wants to start their own business should go ahead and do it. Trial and error is how life works. No amount of pre start-up research can prepare for that.