The Vision of Entrepreneurship - Sometimes Learned Sometimes Inherent

"The entrepreneur in us sees opportunitiestrain themselves to acquire or simply have the ability
everywhere we look, but many people see onlyto see businesses where they don't currently exist
problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur ininstinctually.
us is more concerned with discriminating betweenA Vision That is Shared Among All 9 - 5ers
opportunities than he or she is with failing to see thePeople always want to start their own business. Just
opportunities" - Michael Gerber, author, entrepreneurabout everybody in the entire world has fantasized
A Vision That Is Shared Among All Entrepreneursabout tell their boss to go (verb than pronoun) and
The entrepreneur is able to visualize companies,run their show. However, with every idea they get, a
products and services in ways that people do not.problem or hurdle comes with it. I think that some
Upon going to McDonalds, the entrepreneur does notnon entrepreneurs have great ideas, but upon
see a menu of greasy hamburgers, French fries andthinking as to how to implement them, they get too
chicken nuggets. Most do. Instead, the entrepreneurdiscouraged at the first sign of hard work and
sees a well-run business and thinks to his or herselfadversity. Common adversity can come in the form
as to how they can make their business run asof there being too much competition in the field, they
efficiently as McDonalds is run.need too much money to start the business, what
A client came to me a few weeks ago and said thatare they going to do for cash if they take the risk
they had an online business that they sold for welland other thoughts that could probably fill an entire
into the millions. After the exact number was givenbook.
to me, naturally, I asked what the website was. IHow to Get the "9-5er" Vision Out of Your Head
had never heard of it nor had anybody in the office.If you're like most people, the entrepreneurial instinct
At first glance, I thought the site was somewhatdoes not come with birth, therefore you must train
useless and I had no interest. However, when Iyourself to stop thinking this way. To be an
looked further into how the site operated as aentrepreneur, you have to roll the dice. You must
business, it quickly came to me that the businessthoroughly analyze the thoughts telling screaming for
model was quite genius.you to "stop," trying to open a business or the fear
To formulate an idea such as what this person did,that "it's took risky," or that "you can't." Take these
(speculating, but more than likely the case) is that hedownsides and use them to your advantage. By this,
must have looked at a penny slot machine in anyI mean take everything that is preventing you from
casino U.S.A. and he figured out a way to combine itseeing or following through on an opportunity and
with another existing business model. In the end, thishave the thought, "how much more work will I have
entrepreneur made a platform that lent itself to theto do to overcome this particular obstacle?" This is
users of penny slots, but was not an online casino.the first step to seeing the world through the eyes
These are the types of visions entrepreneurs eitherof an entrepreneur.