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Why It's Good to Be an Entrepreneur Right Now
Courtesy Of: E-Myth
10. Jul. 2008
The Embark Community Connection team reads and reviews many online entrepreneurial sites and will occasionally draw attention to articles and information of interest. This week we found a great slideshow from the Fresh Inc. blog (a constantly updated blog from the Inc. magazine team), that lists 75 reasons why it is a great time to be an entrepreneur right now.
Below we have selected a few of our favorite reasons from the list:
* Number 11: Because we're not rookies anymore. In 25 years of entrepreneurial expansion there have been experiments tried, experiences learned from, discoveries made, and notes taken. Launch a business today and you get shoulders to stand on — you don't have to make it all up from scratch.
* Number 13: Because mothers, finally, are allowed. Their many stories can be distilled to a composite voice: "You don't have to make excuses anymore, and trust me, I've made excuses. About why I had to reschedule a client meeting or not stay for that extra beer or was on a noisy cell phone in what was obviously not an office. I felt like I constantly had to hide my kids — from my employees and investors and, God knows, from my customers. But something changed. Including me and what I'm willing to fake. All I know is that lately no one cares anymore if my schedule's unusual or I have my family occasionally on my mind. Even clients. They bring it up. They want to work around it. Maybe it's just that more and more of them are trying to work around it themselves —men and women both."
* Number 27: The broadbanded, Wi-Fied, video-enabled, international-boundary-eradicating, cost-reducing, market-expanding, ever-stereophonic, and cyber-educating Internet.
* Number 40: Because entrepreneurship is a way out, a way through. In processing interviews in New York City Family Court, kids still say they want most to be NBA basketball players—but the second most commonly-stated goal is "to be an entrepreneur."
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