Let’s unleash the entrepreneur
I started my first business in the 5th grade when I convinced a neighbor to allow me to cut her grass with her electric lawn mower.
That project ended in immediate failure.
The mower was powered by a long extension cord — a cord I ran over and sliced in two shortly after I began mowing.
Such is the life of the entrepreneur, a life typically filled with lots more failure than success.
According to The Balance Small Business, an entrepreneur is someone who develops an enterprise around an innovation, manages the new enterprise and assumes the financial risk for its success or failure.
My definition of an entrepreneur is an independent business person who creates a service or solution that the world didn’t know it needed — and who has the passion and drive to continuously perfect that service or solution.
Walt Disney was a failed animator whose never-give-up creative vision filled my childhood with wonderful stories.
Steve Jobs established an inventive approach to computer technology that now makes it incredibly easy for novices like me to shoot and edit funny videos of my dog (#ThurbersTail) and have a blast doing it.
My favorite entrepreneurs, though, are the millions of restless Americans who can’t stand to report to a “boss” and simply want to create their own products or services and rise or fall financially based on their quality and salability.
People like my beloved carpet cleaner, who has refined his technology and technique to get spots out of rental property carpets and furniture nobody else can remove — all while doing zero harm to the environment.
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