What is the business actually

Our reader Dmitry Dmitriev that entrepreneurship is now without the pink elephants, feigned PR and the sky with diamonds. If you look at Twitter and Facebook founders and impose their way on yourself, in your head too much romance, in which even in the internet entrepreneurship is not so much ...

It's a hard work. When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one is unaware about all the months and years that you have invested, about all the projects that have failed.

Niklass Zenstrom, founder of Skype

The street flashed yellow Ferrari and head automatically appear fancy, it was if his place was me. Surely, you would not have fallen face in the dirt, do you think that now would be just the opportunity you definitely use it to the maximum. But is it? Everything in life has a price and if you are willing to exchange their time on the ghost business prospects?

I am deeply convinced the business can deal with everyone at the same time to have fun and profit. By myself I know how hard it is to leave their homes in large corporations (I worked at KPMG, ADIDAS, WEATHERFORD) and make a difficult choice in favor of his passion - to create a company with little or no start-up capital, and on the bare enthusiasm.

In this post on the example I want to tell you what you have to sacrifice in order to embark on the slippery path of entrepreneurship.

The first decent profit only after 2-3 years

For myself, I developed a rule 24+ months. I was convinced by many examples of its projects and entrepreneurial experience of friends, that in order to bring young company to the level of a decent income, and profits you need hard work on it for at least 24 months and dedicate 3/4 of its time Only him. Of course, you can make a profit in the past, but I'm talking about a relatively stable company that has regular customers and more or less predictable income.

no output

If you start your own entrepreneurial path only for the purpose of work less, then I have to disappoint you - 10 out of 10 successful businessmen, who started from scratch by working 70+ hours a week. In the first year, my main project, I had to wake up at 6 am and go to bed at 12 at night. Although, if to be honest, the only difference compared with the corporate employment was that I did not notice the time and was totally absorbed in what I was doing.

understanding others

Very good if your environment supports you, but often you will not understand. Previously, when I was getting paid twice a month, he was insured but still in addition have a clear perspective of the annual career - I loved and respected, but when I realized, I can realize myself much more in another area and took some drastic steps towards - my fellow colleagues were "politely" do not call me, so as not to disturb the peace. Most of my surroundings I felt weak, so that can not support a high standard of corporate life. Despite the fact that after a few years between me and my former colleagues formed a huge financial and intellectual abyss - I prefer not to maintain contact with them, as the understanding of what and why I went into the business, many of them did not added.

Holidays have to be postponed for a couple of years

I do not cease to surprise a myth - "I start a business, put the right people and I will be smoking bamboo, watching how everything works without me." Certainly the motivation of those who says it is not exactly the full realization of itself and something else. Business as a child requires constant presence and every minute attention and care. You can forget about vacations in the conventional sense commercials years 4-5. Even if you manage to escape somewhere - you will constantly monitor the telephone, mailbox, groups in social networks, and so on. Personally, I still have not been able to learn completely distracted - I was recently in Crimea, and only then did that corresponded with partners and customers on Skype while sitting on a deck chair and forgetting where I was and why here had arrived.

Comfortable shopping, and maybe even housing have to sacrifice

Do you want to buy a car or a new home furnishings? It seems to me that you will forget about it soon, because you will appear super great opportunity to buy advertising, purchase merchandise at a great price or hire unique, but expensive employee. You know, it is in those moments, I understand the true value of money. I had a kind of phase shift - the money should make money every now and again rastsenivaya whether to buy something, I think what I will bring long-term value of this purchase.

You may have to lose an apartment

A few years ago my family and I were on the threshold of what we can lose the mortgaged apartment for business. We were threatened, were getting constant calls, stress accompanied 24 hours a day, but no matter what, We continue to believe that the company we have started really unique and potentially very profitably. Now, when we get out of debt, they regained the apartment and brought business to an acceptable level profitability, I realized that no longer start any project without such enormous faith in what I do. Hovers around us a lot of ideas, and if you want to check whether you can actually build a business on one of them - ask yourself - whether you are willing to risk their housing for her. If your answer is no - continue to search and analyze.

All these difficulties and disadvantages, which I wrote in this post, is nothing compared with the freedom that you can find after. Today I am looking forward to a new day, I'm surrounded by the most intelligent and interesting people on the planet and I clearly know what I want. I have reached a kind of enlightenment and removed from life, everything that does not matter. The path that I had to go hard, but if I had to repeat it, I would not have thought for a second.

About the author:
He worked for several years in large Western corporations (KPMG, ADIDAS, WEATHERFORD). Currently engaged in multiple projects online (the main direction of development and promotion of online games). His example of trying to show that an entrepreneur can be a profitable one.

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