{"id":144,"date":"2003-06-06T20:43:34","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/06\/joys-of-entrepreneurship\/"},"modified":"2003-06-06T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2003-06-06T20:43:34","slug":"joys-of-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2003\/06\/joys-of-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Joys of Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knowledge@Emory<\/a> carries an interesting piece on the pressures and joys of entrepreneurship, culled from the wisdom of many a risk taker :<\/p>\n

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“An entrepreneur has to like to take big risks. When I say big risks, I mean BIG risks. I’m talking about losing your own stuff. Not somebody else’s. You’re not risking getting fired; you’re risking losing everything you ever had.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n

“Flexibility and an open-mind are also key factors in entrepreneurship.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Definition of an entrepreneur: “He or she who has succeeded more often than they have failed.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“What does a great leader do, especially an entrepreneurial leader? You hire people that are smarter than you. You don’t want to be on this big ego trip.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Another tip: you better like what you’re doing. “Whatever business you get into, it is a way of life”. “You better pick something you like. You have to live it. I never had so little time off as when I started my own company.”<\/p>\n

And I am reminded of Dan Bricklin’s quote once again : <\/p>\n

“As you jump from rock to slippery rock, you have to *like* the feeling.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knowledge@Emory carries an interesting piece on the pressures and joys of entrepreneurship, culled from the wisdom of many a risk taker… And I am reminded of Dan Bricklin’s quote once again : “As you jump from rock to slippery rock, you have to *like* the feeling.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}