75 Posts On What It Means To Be An Entrepreneur

Posted on September 03, 2006 by jeffbarson

Josh Steimle runs a creative agency in Salt Lake. I know Josh only slightly having met him on a few occasions in his agency and at Fight Club.

Before I met Josh I already knew of him from his blog DON LOPER.

Josh is regularly listed among Utah’s upward bound entrepreneurs and has obviously met with some successes. But reading his list I was able to relate to almost every point. (In fact, I used it for the first post on my Nimble blog.) Josh is turning his list into a book by posting daily on each topic.

The 75 post series on What It Means To Be An Entrepreneur is about the best I’ve ever read on the headaches of bootstrapping a start up.

Here’s a few topics:

13. You’ve averaged 60-80 hours per week of work for the past five years.

14. You’re the lowest paid employee in your company.

15. You’ve had dreams about your employees’ wives yelling at you.

16. You have to begin interviews of potential employees by saying “I need you to understand that sometimes I won’t be able to pay you.”

I’m more than tempted to rip of Josh’s long list book idea and write a series for physicians running a medical spa over on my medical spas blog.

Josh has it right when he says:

Sometimes “wise” people are merely the product of circumstances beyond their control, and idiots likewise. In the end will I be wise for having put my savings into my business, or will I be an idiot? Luckily I do have a large measure of control in the situation, but only time will tell. Unless you think I’m an idiot for even taking the risk, in which case you’ve already got your answer.

Jeff Barson

Similar Posts:

About Jeff:
Jeff Barson is a serial/parallel entrepreneur. He has founded an advertising agency, publishing company and several other internet-related businesses in addition to Surface Medical Spas. He loves the world of innovation and ideas. He formed Surface Medical Spas in 2000 and has grown Surface from one part-time clinic to 5 clinics in two states with revenue growth of 5000%. He councils physicians and businesses around the world on the emerging revolution in cosmetic medical businesses and delivery systems. Managing Partner & CEO, Surface Medical: surface-med.com Founding Partner & CEO, Nimble: nimbleit.com Owner, Renaissance Man Publishing: ren-man.com Founder, Fight Club CEO Network: fightclub.squarespace.com Owner, Wild Blue Creative Partners: wildbluecreative.com My Linked In Profile: inkedin.com/in/jeffbarson/ My other blogs: medicalspasonline.com nimbleit.squarespace.com fightclub.squarespace.com

Popularity: 9% [?]

Discussion: 6 Comments

6 Responses to “75 Posts On What It Means To Be An Entrepreneur”

Carlos

- 3rd Sep, 06 03:09pm

This one was pretty funny
“27. When someone asks you what you’re doing this weekend you say “Working, of course, just like any other day.”

Reply to this comment
Milo Riano

- 3rd Sep, 06 04:09pm

Wow, some are just plain cruel — “69. You’ve tried to convince your wife to let you cut her hair”.

Some are funny “59. You’ve slept on the floor of your office more than once”, though I like this one, I must admit I’m pretty much a geek within, and once I slept for 10 whole months in front of the computer. I did sleep on the floor a number of times.

I would rather go through these things for five years and live a pretty well life the rest, than retire after 60 years of age still relying on pension.

Very good list I must say…

Reply to this comment
Pete

- 8th Sep, 06 08:09pm

I couldn’t disagree with these more…

Reply to this comment
panasianbiz

- 9th Sep, 06 10:09am

This was indeed, as some have indicated, very entertaining, but there is also a certain amount of truth here. Being an entrepreneur often does mean long hours, low pay, and lots of headaches, but the payoff is so sweet!

Reply to this comment
PR7 Website for Sale

- 23rd Feb, 07 03:02pm

Can you believe what a PR7, PageRank7 website sells for?

Reply to this comment