You Might be an Entrepreneur If…

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I was at an EO meeting and a person said that the love of trying the difficult was an entrepreneur trait. That got me thinking about the “you might be an xyz” chain emails that went around in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Well, here goes my rendition of “you might be an entrepreneur if…”:

You’ve gotten energy from someone telling you you’re not going to succeed
You’re blissfully ignorant when it comes to how hard it’ll be to make your business successful
You’ve maxed out your credit cards on the business and still press on
You’ve worried about meeting payroll
You’ve been rejected by angels or VCs when trying to raise money, or to even get a meeting
You think your idea is the greatest in the world before you even have a customer
You’ve pulled an all-nighter getting ready for a pitch
You’ve been told by a parent to get a real job
Your spouse has been repeatedly asked if you work by yourself out of your house
You have a goal to join EO or YPO once revenues are high enough

Those have all happened to me many times. Man, it is fun to be an entrepreneur!

What else? What are some other indicators you might be an entrepreneur?

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7 responses to “You Might be an Entrepreneur If…”

April 28, 2010

Dave Williams

When you planning for your IPO before you have made a dollar 🙂

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1. April 29, 2010
  
  davidcummings
  
  Great one Dave!
  
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April 29, 2010

Wade Sonenberg

You micro manage your kids’ lemonade stand in hopes of them pulling in a little more money for candy.
Any time you go to the dry cleaners, out for a bottle of wine, or even just to McDonalds – you’re always trying to figure out process flows, margins, and how to do it better.

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April 29, 2010

Stephen Reid

Always be thinking about how things work and how you can make them better.

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August 9, 2011

Scott Campbell (@threedukes)

You go to parties and find yourself challenging people to come up with problems that you can’t find the opportunity in. (epilogue: …and then spend an all-nighter writing a pitch for a startup around the opportunity you came up with).

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August 9, 2011

reuben e katz (@rekatz)

Every conversation ends in buying more domain names, writing a summary or telling someone how they could make more money in their business

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August 10, 2011

ridecell

In the course of your normal day you see so many potential customers who would *really* benefit from your product, that it is physically painful

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