Comments on: Business Building as Escaping Boredom? http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2007/08/26/business-building-as-escaping-boredom/ Start, Run, and Grow Your Business Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:20:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Rachael http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2007/08/26/business-building-as-escaping-boredom/#comment-11 Rachael Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:45:08 +0000 http://upandrunning.entrepreneur.com/2007/08/26/business-building-as-escaping-boredom/#comment-11 In my opionion passion drives business -- without it how can someone stay committed to a start up that in the end requires so much of your heart and soul. So let's be honest -- what entrepreneur can make the sacrifices required for success for a venture they just don't like? The kind of entrepreneurs that can do that, are the ones that blow my mind. There is a surge of entrepreneurship -- I think it's because technology makes it so much easier to be an entrepreneur, I think there is a world of opportunity right now -- but I also think that the Gen X and Gen Y people out there have learned a thing or two by watching their parents and previous generations and their approach to work and career and the effect it has on their family. They want something different and are willing to go out there and create it. I'm 29 years old - I started my business at the age of 26 out of interest and learned that I am absolutely passionate about business, technology, publishing and just plain being an entrepreneur. I work crazy hours, but I have control over my time and how I spend it. I can be there when my kids wake up, take them to pre-school, head out to the park and still work 60 hours a week if need be. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again - and expecting different results. I think entrepreneur's want different results so they are willing to take different paths. In my opionion passion drives business — without it how can someone stay committed to a start up that in the end requires so much of your heart and soul. So let’s be honest — what entrepreneur can make the sacrifices required for success for a venture they just don’t like? The kind of entrepreneurs that can do that, are the ones that blow my mind.

There is a surge of entrepreneurship — I think it’s because technology makes it so much easier to be an entrepreneur, I think there is a world of opportunity right now — but I also think that the Gen X and Gen Y people out there have learned a thing or two by watching their parents and previous generations and their approach to work and career and the effect it has on their family. They want something different and are willing to go out there and create it.

I’m 29 years old – I started my business at the age of 26 out of interest and learned that I am absolutely passionate about business, technology, publishing and just plain being an entrepreneur. I work crazy hours, but I have control over my time and how I spend it. I can be there when my kids wake up, take them to pre-school, head out to the park and still work 60 hours a week if need be.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again – and expecting different results. I think entrepreneur’s want different results so they are willing to take different paths.

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