Consider This Before You Try Becoming an Entrepreneur…

So you want to be an entrepreneur? Nowadays, it's really cool to be an entrepreneur. It's something in which it's trendy. It's something where social media makes it seem like it's the best thing to do in the world because it's free, independent, and all this jazz.

But what I'd encourage you to do today is to just reconsider whether or not that's actually the right call for you.

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0:00 - Introduction to Consider This Before You Try Becoming an Entrepreneur…

0:32 - I knew little to nothing about business when I started

Sure I'd run a couple web design businesses and tutoring businesses in the past.

But it was something in which I mainly was doing it because I felt like I had to do something in the world. I had spent this summer reading all these entrepreneurship books, whether it was Derek Sivers Anything You Want or the $100 startup, and pretty much I found myself in a situation where I felt like I just had to start a company.

3:11 - What are you interested in?

Learn the craft for a year or two, and then take a step back, reflect on what you learned from that situation to then think about what you might be interested in building next. Especially if you find yourself early on in your career.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is just invest in scale building, and the reason why is because you can learn from the other operators.

When you learn from being an actual operator in the space that you're interested in going into, you're gonna be able to essentially learn on somebody else's dime as opposed to your own dime.

5:32 - Finding an operator

The reason why is because this person, if you find the right one, can be a great mentor for you in terms of being a sounding board for all the sorts of questions that you might have as you're trying to explore and really get a lay of the land of how to help their business grow faster.

If you can help somebody that's further along than you grow their business, they will want to repay the favor for you in terms of helping you when you're ready to start your own thing.

7:11 - Key takeaways

There's so many ways to be successful as an entrepreneur, and that's what's beautiful about it. But this is a less common or less talked about path that I find on all these different social media platforms in which everyone's always trying to teach you to just go ahead and start your own thing.

And you can definitely do that, but at the same time, you can also do it on somebody else's dime.

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