Comments on: So you want to be an entrepreneur http://www.startup-book.com/2008/12/18/so-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur/ What we may still learn from Silicon Valley Sun, 27 May 2012 18:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Noel Loans http://www.startup-book.com/2008/12/18/so-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur/#comment-7069 Noel Loans Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:17:30 +0000 http://www.startup-book.com/?p=152#comment-7069 Hello, possibly this post might be off topic but anyways, I have gone browsing around your blog and it looks very great. It's obvious that you know your subject and you appear fervent about it. Hello, possibly this post might be off topic but anyways, I have gone browsing around your blog and it looks very great. It’s obvious that you know your subject and you appear fervent about it.

]]> By: Jie Wu http://www.startup-book.com/2008/12/18/so-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur/#comment-1508 Jie Wu Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:27:42 +0000 http://www.startup-book.com/?p=152#comment-1508 I personally can see that (successful) start-up enterpreneurs often have similar (to some extent) experiences, similar reflections, and highly possible similar achievements. Keeping this in mind, a start-up entrepreneur wouldn't feel like being that alone when frustrated by this or that problem. Although my start-up is still at an early stage, I can imagine that to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to really enjoy the process of starting up your business to turn your idea and great expectations into reality, and this will certainly make your persistent life much easier, because all that you are doing is what you really love to and want to do. Furthermore, I can classify such love and persistence into two categories: interest-driven prominently like Microsoft, Dell, Yahoo, Google's founders; survival-driven, probably found more often in the cases that founders are former professional managers but quit their previous jobs to start a business. The two driving factors will naturally mingle and merge along with the growth of the start-up. To the end, I personally believe the radical driving factor of an enterpreneur is her/his personality, i.e., she/he is born to be an enterpreneur, sooner or later. I personally can see that (successful) start-up enterpreneurs often have similar (to some extent) experiences, similar reflections, and highly possible similar achievements. Keeping this in mind, a start-up entrepreneur wouldn’t feel like being that alone when frustrated by this or that problem.

Although my start-up is still at an early stage, I can imagine that to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to really enjoy the process of starting up your business to turn your idea and great expectations into reality, and this will certainly make your persistent life much easier, because all that you are doing is what you really love to and want to do.

Furthermore, I can classify such love and persistence into two categories: interest-driven prominently like Microsoft, Dell, Yahoo, Google’s founders; survival-driven, probably found more often in the cases that founders are former professional managers but quit their previous jobs to start a business. The two driving factors will naturally mingle and merge along with the growth of the start-up.

To the end, I personally believe the radical driving factor of an enterpreneur is her/his personality, i.e., she/he is born to be an enterpreneur, sooner or later.

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