As I've been researching, for the paper for which I still have no idea what it is I'll really be writing about the night before the topic is due, I've come across some very interesting topic ideas and random articles that I thought everyone might find interesting. The one that I read today, though, was one that piqued my interest quite a bit because it deals with the topic of entrepreneurialism.
What's funny about this post is that as I started to write the intro paragraph I figured that I'd go back to the article so that I could include a link and reference some of the particular things that they were talking about. The only problem is that apparently not enough people on Yahoo! today thought that the article was interesting enough for them to keep it up on their site....hahahaha. I think that it was replaced by the first cut on dancing with the stars.....appropriate.
What it basically had to deal with was the fact that most entrepreneurial characteristics, which I still think I have pretty many of and it gets scarier every time I read these articles, resemble characteristics of crazy people. It relates back pretty well to the article that Luke posted the other day about entrepreneurialism being like a disease that can't be helped. It went into detail about a young man who is only 19 years old who dropped out of Princeton after convincing a venture capital firm to give him $750,000 to start his own business. Even though he may be close to crazy, he still convinced that firm that he was the kind of person that they were excited about investing in.
These kind of stories inspire me to keep letting everyone around me think I'm crazy. For now I'll go back to making myself crazy trying to find this article and put it up as soon as I can find it in case you all are interested in hearing more.
Jeff,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in what the article had to say. I am curious able the idea of entrepreneurs having similar charasteristics to crazy people. When I was in my undergrad I started a small business making messenger bags and other small baggage. It became a serious obsession. I missed so much class because I was so busy designing, marketing, ordering, and selling my products.
What I have found in the end is it never changes, this feeling of obsession. Only your attention moves to other ventures. I have found the best way to handle it all is to have a final goal. A final venture that you are striving for and focus on that. Whatever happens on the way only builds the foundation of what that idea may be. I wonder if you have had similar experiences? I also ponder what that kid has to say to get 3/4 of a mil.