Starting a business takes a lot more than skill, experience and knowledge.
But what does it really take? Yes, the usual stuff – hard work, commitment, a willingness to go out on your own etc. – but there are a whole lot of things people don’t usually talk about – truly difficult questions like:
- I am willing to lose everything.
- I embrace failure.
- I am always willing to do tedious work.
- I can handle watching my dreams fall apart.
- Even if I am puking my guts out with the flu and my mother passed away last week, there is nothing that will keep me from being ready to work.
Seth Kravitz posted these and 15 more of the best questions I’ve ever seen about the real costs and questions to ask about entrepreneurship on his blog, SecondCityCEO, re-published on the Harvard Business Review.
An absolutely gut-wrenchingly honest list…
Hi Roohi, how often can we expect bits of wisdom from the 7th Wave?
I’ll try to help with videos of SocBiz2010. Great start!
Hi Shari, hopefully as often as possible…we’ll be sharing lots of info about Social Media including tips, tools and techniques, Online Marketing, general business and entrepreneur topics, upcoming events and of course the upcoming SocialBiz conference – and more…would love to have you guest post some time