How do most people come to the conclusion that "maybe I should start a business"? Sure, USAToday articles and the News will tell you it started with a really great idea - like an umbrella that doubles as a grocery cart - or the desire to make the world a better place. Blah. It started because ____ was sitting in a cubicle at work (or in a classroom listening to someone lecture) thinking: "I could do ______ better than it's currently being done...AND I could make some damn money." Green was no accident either.
THAT is the real entrepreneurial bug. And so I've been bitten (well, twice - the first bite was corporate America). And apprently not the only one. So a college friend and I have been throwing around various ideas thinking of starting a business. Meeting at Starbucks discussing what we think could be the "next big thing" while glancing over our shoulders, to make sure that our brilliance isn't being overheard. Perusing the internet for information on what it takes to start a business. "Write a business plan". Ok. Writing business plans while laying in my hotel room watching the Simpsons. Put up some ads looking for web developers - ya know, all the stuff you do when you think you want to start a business but you're really not sure you're really ready to start a business. Writing a business plan is easy. Telling your family and friends about your idea and convincing them that your idea will take off, is the easy part. Even listening to people tell you "no way, that's not going to work" or "that's already being done" is the easy part.
All the 'easy', no-risk, idea formulation tasks.
Procrastination at its best.
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as they say, break a leg.
this start up stuff is a journey.
you start off doing whatever's in your plan, but ultimately end up with something's that completely diffent.
during this time, you will find your self transormed - and that's why people start businesses.
they want to be somebody else; i.e. the person who beats their competitors despite all odds.
it's not a game for the light hearted, because you often end up being the person you despise.
entrepreneurshiop is sometimes the express way to seriously screw up one's life because there are no rules, so anyone can easily wonder off into a whole heap of misadventure.
but, that's only the downside.
Hey, you're right. Lucky for us - both of us come from entrepreneurial families (fathers are both small business owners). Does that mean we'll be successful? C'mon - we both know the answer to that.
But what it does mean is that some of the romanticized notions many associated with entrepreneurship have effectively been ruined. HAHA. Taking vacations when you want to? Riiight. Working 8 hour days. Suuure.
Should be fun. :)
you know....you've got a great personality ;-)
i'm joining the Nadiyah fan club
Thanks Daniel!! We try! Hopefully personality can win us over some investors, advisors, and potentially a whole gang of customers. The more the merrier!!
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