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What is entrepreneurship?
If you ask Siri for the definition of the word entrepreneur, she will tell you that it means one who organizes and assumes the risk for a business. The thing is, entrepreneur is not an English word. It’s a French word and it means one who takes on (a challenge). The word enterprise therefore is the challenge that is taken on, or the mission. Though in a capitalist economy profit is an important means of sustaining and scaling an enterprise, business isn’t necessarily what entrepreneurship is about. From this perspective, you could say that climbing Mount Everest was an enterprise. I’m sure it wasn’t easy, and I really don’t think they did it for the money.
So… Why be an entrepreneur? We could discuss abstract philosophical notions all day, but I have a more practical line of thinking on the matter. Anyone who is alive has 3 basic choices on how to live.
1. Live a life of purpose. Have values that you try your best to adhere to. Have goals that you strive to achieve.
2. Drift through life like plastic garbage in the ocean.
3. Suicide…
I choose option number 1. I choose to respect and maximize the freedom of others as well as my own. I choose to dedicate my life to solving monumental problems to enhance the human condition. If I am successful in doing this, I am sure that the rewards (even financial) will be far greater than those gotten by reiterating on someone else’s e-commerce business.
In short, if you really want to be an entrepreneur, live and breathe what you believe in, and don’t be a fucking poser.
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