Zohare founded his company after his 35th birthday. A series of mistakes and learnings gave him some valuable lessons. Take a look at them.
Mainly because there is never enough.
What is time after all, right? ?
In short, I learned that Entrepreneurship = 24 hours x2 = 1 day (ideally) ➗ real life x (money, family, debt, kids) = eternal cycles of "just a little bit". And that's the big lesson, so you can save yourself from reading this blog.
However, if you decide to continue, I will do my best to make it worth your while. No promises and no refunds.
Back in 2018, I wrote an article [ENG] about adventuring. It was an honest and complete exercise of my journey through this life and a turning point that changed everything.
And to be completely honest with you, I wouldn't change a thing.
What I would always like to do is help you make better decisions. A good co-founder or co-founder plays a tremendously important role, but at the end of the day, you are responsible for your choices. And some decisions can be devastating if you don't have the foresight, experience or safety net to fall back on when things go wrong.
So, with this list of 3 learnings, I will try to offer you a little of what I think and discovered before and after my entrepreneurship:
Be more reflective. 35 equals 12 or so in a professional career; just over a decade, that could make you a seasoned leader.
But this game of following your dreams varies from person to person.
Hell, entrepreneurship is unlike anything they teach you in college. There will be months when money will be erratic or absent. So plan your moves very well. Talk to your partner, save money, cut expenses, reduce your debts and prepare for difficult winters.
Not everyone will become the next Warren Buffet or Steve Jobs. But you will definitely have to work as hard as they do.
Be more real.
It is important to be yourself, with a certain degree of humility.
When you're the captain of your own ship, you're the boss, the junior executive and the staff all rolled into one. But you're also the debt collector and the customer service expert.
As we grow up, we learn to depend on others, but also to appreciate their role and work a little more. So be prepared for changes in your behavior that will change your life, hopefully for the better. So being considerate of your new community requires you to take them with you and share the journey. So be honest, open and involved.
Be nice. Remember that friend way back when you were a manager at that growing telecommunications company who approached you with an offer and you thought, "Dude, can you really handle that? It's just two people and a PC!"
Self-doubt and self-confidence will be your most present companions on this journey. Both are important for balance, but are usually reinforced by forces you cannot control.
If you were an insensitive jerk to someone (like I was), then this is the time to make amends. You'll need those people to give you advice on how to overcome your past self and try to sell your dream to someone with capital in a big company.
But in the end, your integrity will be your best ally, keep it close.
Being a leader at an organization you didn't start or set a blue-sky vision for... is not yours. So your skin isn't quite in the game. You could say it is, but that's corporate-speak for "Work hard, earn hard." That's how they rope you in (read: noose).
Taking risks can be scary, it was for me. But even without a regular payroll, I'm happier than I could be.
I hope this isn't read by my wife, because she'll probably have a thing or two to say about it.
Just kidding, she has been my biggest supporter.
Read the original blog on Linkedin [ENG].
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