Below is from inc5000.com, it is so true that "There is very little room for
part-time entrepreneurs".
The sad thing is that I believe it is true while I am still doing it part
time. The good thing is that 我已经坚持了3年，还要继续坚持下去。
想想这里应该有很多业余的吧，共勉，欢迎排砖。
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At our accelerator here in Durham, North Carolina, we deal with
entrepreneurs of every description. Age, race, gender, education--we see
diversity of just about every sort. This fall, three of the six companies in
our group this fall are led by women. Next spring, who knows.
But the diverse people in our program have at least one thing in common--
something we call entrepreneurial DNA. I like simple definitions, so let's
define entrepreneurial DNA as the ability to jump off a cliff with no
apparent net. I’ll go so far as to say our success is based on identifying
people who have it.
Here are a few observations about the leap and the people who make it:
Great leaps are made with great data. Boldness is attractive to us, but
recklessness is not. Great entrepreneurs find a way to share their idea or
concept or prototype with a targeted customer set. Whether they did this
informally over coffee or in a controlled environment like a test landing
page, they have accumulated data.
Limping is not leaping. Start-ups are hard. Real hard. At a minimum they
require many hours, and a good number of those hours involve asking yourself
whether this is ever going to work. Limp in and you will almost always bail
out when the idea seems dead. The leap is a gate to success, in my
experience. There is very little room for part-time entrepreneurs.
There is safety in numbers. Entrepreneurs need one another. Hanging out with
other entrepreneurs lets you see that it isn’t easy for anyone. There is
no magic template for success. There is no exact right way to move your
company forward. There are just opinions-;and it’s a good idea to hear some
. Entrepreneurs need mentors, too-;not to tell them what to do, but to help
them process data. The role of the mentors in our program is specifically to
share the gather-data/make-decision experiences that drive great insight.
Still, the people who are ready to leap do it on their own, for their own
reasons. With a smile. Because they have that Entrepreneurial DNA.
