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Can any one guide me to be entrepreneur...?

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  • Becoming an entrepreneur is easy, just try to take something to market.

    Becoming a successful entrepreneur is a different story. Almost all successful entrepreneurs have failed in the past, but are driven to succeed and will keep trying and learning from mistakes.

    To go from nothing to something big almost always requires help. To get help requires convincing others to sacrifice, which takes extreme confidence and salesmanship. The people that help are also looking to profit from helping, but every stakeholder will want a disproportionate share or more than is available because they believed the sales pitch. This almost always leads to some stakeholders becoming very unhappy. The successful entrepreneur is the one who comes out of the fray reaping profits and maintaining power and control, usually at everyone else's expense. To do this usually requires a very thick skin and an ability to use people without experiencing crippling remorse.

    Many entrepreneurs start out trying to be nice guys, but they either fail or they change into not-so-nice guys. It is not impossible to be a nice guy and a successful entrepreneur at the same time, it is just very rare.

    If you really want to be a successful entrepreneur, be prepared for it to take a toll on your soul.

  • in reply to dougw

    Doug, it’s a grim representation of an entrepreneur’s character and ethics. Almost as if their success relies on predator behaviour and has to be at other people’s cost.

    My take on being an entrepreneur is having the ability to run a business that can at the minimum sustain itself.

  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    It is possible to consider it to be a bit grim, but it all depends on your perspective and your value system. There are lots of traits exhibited by successful entrepreneurs that we all admire, so for some it balances out. But there are realities of what it takes to achieve success. To have a winner often implies there is a loser. When I was starting out, I thought if you created something new, there was no competition and there would be no loser. I was wrong, it is just not as obvious who loses. Hopefully there is more upside than downside, but the downside is always there somewhere.

  • in reply to dougw

    I get the impression, the tone of your original message was tempered from experience. I don't believe your experience is unique. In our world of glass half full view and not half empty, the positive side of an entrepreneur is always the focus.

     

    After reading Walter Isaacson book about Steve Jobs, I came away with the impression that Jobs was a ***, who I wouldn't be  working for, at least not for long. After more research my title suggestion for the man was re-enforced. The few times that I have made the comment about the so called Apple visionary has caused me such consternation, I keep my opinion to myself. Now that I put it in writing the messages will flow.

     

    Survival requires us to evolve. Sometimes to succeed our survival may require a change that otherwise would not seem unacceptable. The Emperor wears the cloths to be Emperor. I'm not confident I could enter the Entrepreneur arena yet leave not having undergone some unwanted change. Just doesn't seem possible with all the well crafted pricks around.

     

    Sean

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  • in reply to dougw

    I get the impression, the tone of your original message was tempered from experience. I don't believe your experience is unique. In our world of glass half full view and not half empty, the positive side of an entrepreneur is always the focus.

     

    After reading Walter Isaacson book about Steve Jobs, I came away with the impression that Jobs was a ***, who I wouldn't be  working for, at least not for long. After more research my title suggestion for the man was re-enforced. The few times that I have made the comment about the so called Apple visionary has caused me such consternation, I keep my opinion to myself. Now that I put it in writing the messages will flow.

     

    Survival requires us to evolve. Sometimes to succeed our survival may require a change that otherwise would not seem unacceptable. The Emperor wears the cloths to be Emperor. I'm not confident I could enter the Entrepreneur arena yet leave not having undergone some unwanted change. Just doesn't seem possible with all the well crafted pricks around.

     

    Sean

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