Steve Blank Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them
As a single entrepreneur I had a philosophy of, “ I live to work ” – nothing was more exciting or important than my job. Now with kids it had become, “ I work to live .” I still loved what I did as an entrepreneur but I wasn’t working only for the sheer joy of it, I was also working to provide for my family and a longer term goal of retirement and
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That's the real point of startups. Ideally, you are getting together with a group of other people who also want to work a lot harder, and get paid a lot more, than they would in a big company.
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So many business leaders and entrepreneurs started with the dictum: "bigger and better"
I want to have a company with 200 people, 300 people. I want to be growing my company and scaling it and then selling it and exiting.
And that's right for some people, but the number of individuals I've worked with who along the way have realized, actually,
Am I choosing this to avoid pain now? You might think working at a company gets you the experience you need to run your own. Truth is, you will never know what you need to learn until you begin. You can't learn how to swim while standing on the beach. Don't waste the best years of your life, your 20s or 30s working for someone else. Use that power... See more
We all have different reasons for becoming founders. For me, two key motivations stand out:
- Passion and Skill: I derive immense satisfaction from building things I'm passionate about and skilled in. There's a unique joy in seeing an idea transform into a tangible product or service that solves real problems for people.
- Lifestyle Freedom: