Who said starting a business is difficult? Here’s how I’ve done it. I’m just about ready for launch, and by following these directions, you too can be a successful entrepreneur.
- Read The 4-Hour Work Week four years ago
- Get excited and brainstorm a “muse”
- Figure one out, get excited, tell your friends
- Write a blog post about it
- Put in twenty hours of work
- Get excited about a different but related idea; ignore the first idea “just for a bit”, and tell all your friends about shiny business number two
- Life
- Have a bad day at work – swear we’ll start back on the side hustle tomorrow
- Three glasses of wine – well, maybe tomorrow night again
- Dammit – even “easy” ideas are hard
- Let two years go by and have a third kid
- New Year’s Resolution! Gonna finish this bitch in the first quarter
- By this bitch, we mean the first idea – try to keep up
- Make a bunch of progress
- Start third business with friends – third business uses the product from second business
- Sorry, project one
- Maybe second quarter for launch (of second business, clearly)
- OK, well, shit – let’s aim for third quarter
- Take two weeks off from work to work on business
- Burn the midnight oil
- Almost there – but that last 5% takes as much time as the first 95%
- Spend all the money: LLC, business license, software license, fictitious name registration, download manager, dropbox for business, logo design, legalese for the website
- Cross the finish line – still on business 2! – right before FinCon (hopefully)
- Profit
And now I need to read the four hour work week. I keep meaning to…
I’ve got a copy of that. 🙂 I’ll put it in that crockpot. That should make up for the fact that I can’t lend you “The forever war” (as promised) since it seems to have disappeared from my library…