I have a bone to pick with most of the media out there.
I spend a good amount of time browsing business publications, and entrepreneurs are always depicted in one of two ways:
1) The “pie in the sky” depiction highlights the one in a billion that made it big ala Mark Zuckerberg. This is the person that every entrepreneur hopes to be; the person that is disrupting the status quo, and making real changes to society.
2) The hopeless, burnt out entrepreneur is the second depiction. You know exactly the one I am talking about. The person that is bleeding through their savings to hold onto this dream that may or may not work. They are always wear a hoodie, sitting alone in their dirty apartment coding 24/7.
There is an in-between entrepreneur, and if that person was shown more often, I think more people would venture out on their own.
Look, there is no denying entrepreneurs start out hungry for success and change. We are all trying to be the next Mark Zuckerberg in our industry. However, if we don’t get there, it doesn’t mean we have failed.
So, why don’t more people follow through with their dreams? I blame the media to an extent; they make being an entrepreneur look so unattainable. They rarely show the people in the middle: the ones who are living their dreams, paying their rent, and living a fairly fabulous life. Maybe not billionaire fabulous, but pretty fucking fabulous nonetheless.
What is your reason for not starting your own business?
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