Entrepreneurs and Day-dreams
23 entrepreneurs and 11 daydreams later, it’s finally official – the entrepreneurship bug has finally bit me. I never intended this to happen and I never thought that it would happen to ME of all people, but in some ways, it’s satisfying. How can you study business all the time and never dream of creating it yourself? I’d like to think that you’re not nearly half an MBA if you haven’t thought about it (seriously) atleast once.
BUT, I have my self-doubts…
All entrepreneurs I’ve spoken to concur on one thing – they swear by this as if it were the holy grail of entrepreneurship: Never-ever-ever do it for money. Now this really worries me. Because I can’t understand how I could have been a very happy banker and hope to be an even happier entrepreneur at the same time.
All my ideas are centrered on food, clothes or indulgent products and services. Does this mean I’m a lifetstyle person? And if I am a lifestyle person, then how can money not be important in the scheme of things…I need it to have a lifestyle!
And at the end of the day, is it really so much about talent or is it more like a game of poker? You can easily out-muscle others if you have enough capital ( larger buy-in in case of poker), you need to wait for a good hand to win and just keep playing until you get it (good “idea” in case of entrepreneurship) and success in both poker and entrepreneurship is based a lot on luck. So if entrepreneurship does indeed sound so much like poker, does it mean that I am gambling my life away by becoming an entrepreneur?
Or is entreprenership like Creme brulee; something which sounds exotic and exciting, tastes like heaven if you have just a spoonful, but makes you sick to the stomach if you have it the entire day, day after day?
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People don’t pursue entrepreneurship for philanthropic purposes. Money might not be the driving factor (and most of the times its not if you’re doing a startup) but it definitely is one of the objectives in the long term.
One will have to be a Steve Wozniak to say money doesn’t matter. And I guess to him it doesn’t. He did it for the love of engineering.
You might want to read a book called Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. Covers quite a few known tech entrepreneurs and gives a good insight into their lives.
Comment by arpitrai | July 22, 2010
I am gambling my life away by becoming an entrepreneur?
Yes. But, aren’t you gambling it away anyways? Gamble it for something worth it. Something that matters. If money is that something do it for money. If not, for something else.
That is the realization, which got me there.
Don’t remember how I landed here, but god blog
Comment by Ghushe | August 19, 2010