Your first web site will look like a college professor made it. (Otherwise traffic lights everywhere would now be participating in DDOS attacks.) Geeky enthusiasm will only get you so far. Even Bill Gates and Paul Allen threw in the towel with Traf-O-Data. Well, some business failures cause quite a wobble (Enron… cough cough), but the earth soon rights itself once again.Įven if there’s a great prophecy about your first stab at business and it turns out you’re The One, you’re still probably going to fall flat on your face. The world doesn’t actually spin off its axis just because one business fails. “Everyone falls the first time.”īut guess what… you know what happens after that? You get up and do it again. What does it mean? “Nothing,” came the reply. Remember the scene in The Matrix when Neo tries to do his first superjump and smacks face-first into the ground. If this is the first business you’re starting, it probably won’t work out too well in the long run. Perhaps the reality of the situation is that your wife thinks you’re incompetent, and if you were to start your own business, your family may go broke and lose all the nice stuff you’ve acquired.Īfter all, most new businesses do fail. Your wife won’t let you? Are you a homo sapien or a wimpus maximus? Your wife won’t let you start your own business? What’re you… six years old? Have you softened your will so much that you now live only by the voice of the collective: “You will not start your own business. Johnny has my permission to start his own business if that’s what he really wants.
Or perhaps you could get a note from your Mommy: Would it help if you told her I said it was OK? My wife won’t let me start my own business… Certainly other situations are possible, but I’ll just address the most common one and avoid getting lost in a quagmire of pronouns. There are variations using “girlfriend” or “fiancée,” but so far I can’t recall a single instance of a woman telling me her husband/boyfriend wouldn’t let her start a business, not to mention male-male and female-female relationships or those involving pets. I hear this one a lot: I want to start my own business, but my wife won’t let me because she thinks it’s too risky.
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