This Kaleidoscope World of Entrepreneurship
Some entrepreneurs look like metalheads. Some look like divas. Some look like middle managers from Ayala.
Some do it to make a dent in the universe. Some do it for the love of the game. Some do it for family. Some do it for art. Some do it for glory.
For some, entrepreneurship is a choice amidst a world of possibility. For others, it is the only way out of poverty.
Some entrepreneurs command an army. Some lead a small band of guerrillas. Others are like Rambo, a one-man army.
Some are like me, prone to war metaphors. Others liken entrepreneurship to raising a family, or playing basketball, or tending a garden. Some think it is like three-dimentional chess from Star Trek.
Some create startups, businesses yet to have playbooks. Their job is first to find product-market fit, then a repeatable way to get customers, and a scalable way to deliver value.
Others build classical businesses, the backbone of civilization: manufacturing, financing, distribution, retail, services. Ask yourself, who built the businesses that built the world around you?
Some win through innovation. Some win with data. Some win with the secret recipe from their grandma.
Some go big or go home. Some aim for minimal work for maximum life. Some just simply work.
Some self-fund. Some bootstrap. Some are financed with debt, some are financed with equity. Some raise from angels, some raise from VC.
Every business has its own story. Every entrepreneur has her own journey.
Yours will be a colorful new permutation of that odyssey.
Entrepreneurship is never black and white in this kaleidoscope world.
Of course, I stole this. In memory of Francis M.
