Lost as an Entrepreneur? Join the Crowd!

February 23rd, 2009 · Comments · Entrepreneur, Motivation

One of the many challenges I have encountered as a young entrepreneur is obviously a lack of experience.

Whenever I try to work with people while starting my business I have found I usually can’t answer their questions. It doesn’t matter the field. Just about everyone I try to work with has questions as to what I expect to do and I generally just give a blank stare or vague answers.

Should I go for 10,000 unique views to my site next month?

Does that mean I should expect to make at least $2000? $500? $50?

Should I try to get 50, 200, 500 products on my site?

I have no idea!!!

I rarely can give people a good answer simple because I don’t know what reasonable answers are. I’ve never done this before.

Some people don’t like this or think I’m dumb or not prepared to take on starting a business. I disagree. Now I’m not saying I’m prepared, doing everything right or won’t stumble at some point. However I know I’m ready to do this and I am ready to take the ups and downs and move forward.

Now I know I’m not alone out there and there are a ton of young and old entrepreneurs who give those same blank stares and vague answers when someone asks you what your expecting.

So know your not alone and don’t worry about having all the answers, if you have the drive even the biggest mistakes will be overcome.

And I can’t wait to look back on all of this one day and laugh at how much easier I could have made everything.

But I just didn’t know!

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Rebecca

Not knowing is so exciting and the fact that you seem like you are enjoying all the risk and all the uncertainty shows that you're on the right path :)

Rob

So true. My first business is four years old [should have lied and said 1!]. The end of last year I sat down and looked at all the mistakes I made. Four pages later it was pretty clear what changes i had to make this year.

Some seem pretty obvious, but I had never done this before so how was I suppose to realize the importance of doing certain things or not doing others?

I look at it at my university equivalent business education: I studied for 4 years and now it's into the real world to ply what I have learned.

And I made all the big mistakes you can too - ignoring taxes, accounting etc. - you get by. And you learn.

Rob Ianelli

This post rings true. There's no doubt a lot of questions to be answered throughout the entrepreneurial process, but the bottom line is, "if you don't know the answer now, in time you will" and like said above....we'll all look back on the "start up" days and say Damn, did I make it out to be more work than it is. Does this discourage people, possibly cause them to stop? Sure. It's not easy trying anything that you're new at. You have to be upfront with the inexperience, and if anything, use it as an advantage. Make those mistakes, in the end, those are what bring you to the success level.

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