In my humble opinion, starting a business is not more difficult than working a ‘normal’ job.
It is merely different.
You can only succeed when you work hard to create value for the customers whether directly as a business owner or indirectly as a member of the staff.
You win when you create commercial value.
However, the benefits of starting your business is that you get to pick yourself and so, you can start anytime you like as opposed to waiting for some people to decide you are good enough to work with.
Yes, you can pick yourself.
The other side to this argument is that I don’t like the idea of starting a company for ‘starting a company sake’. Businesses that stand the test and rigours of time are founded on a vision, a solid mission that gets people to really care about it. So, as a visionary leader I say: “don’t start a company first without any meaningful vision backing it up. The vision is what will keep you going on the dry days.”
Employees are guaranteed a pay day every month. A Business owner can go a few months without pay, its all part of the journey… However, the business man can always land a deal that will keep him up for many months.
Everyone of us picked our paths, and we should be thankful for it. After graduation, a lot of my colleagues are working happily at top companies while I stuck stubbornly to my entrepreneurial pursuits.
I am not better than them; many of them can match me one-on-one for business skills or design skills or technical chops. I am merely different from them.
