blog.guykawasaki.com — Great guest post by Glenn Kelman, who offers a counterpoint to Guy Kawasaki's posting about how easy it is to make millions of dollars with "user-generated, long-tail, Web 2.0, social-networking, open-source content." Glenn brings things back to reality and shows how hard, not how easy, it is to build a new company.
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jason469Aug 2, 2007
Of course it's not easy. If you want success you must work hard for it, most successful people that I know work just as hard or even harder than the regular nine to five average joe. My aunt has a pretty successful travel agency and she works 60 hour weeks and always has business on her mind. She travels about 10 times a year, but even when she's on vacation she's still calling in, still thinking about how to make her business more successful and new ways to run things. She's always told me that she loves what she does, but there are times that she would just like to have a normal nine to five job.....and then reality kicks in and she remembers her nice house, nice car, and having a lot of money in the bank.
fredoberfilAug 2, 2007
Guy Kawasaki makes his money selling "how to get rich" books and seminars. I never listen to people like that.
richman777Aug 2, 2007
Great article. In the middle of a start-up with some friends myself and I can totally relate to many items on that list. It is sort of disheartening when you see those fluke success stories about how easy it is and you're trying to so hard. It's nice to have something that supports all the hard work we're putting into it.
brundlefly76Aug 2, 2007
Exactly.If your business isn't successful you haven't even really had experience building a business yet.Also, a lot of entrepreneurs work very hard at their business and call it easy, but actually work a lot more then wage earners, its just that that is what they enjoy doing so it seems like less effort.
pendolinoAug 10, 2007
this isn't a forum for sympathy and you'd help yourself better getting off digg and doing something about it. the true entrepreneur knows how to get up again when he falls.
peppiesAug 14, 2007
I think it depends on what business you get into and what the hot trends are. I've had many trial and error plans over the years and have been figuring out the online business at least. It's definitely not easy, it takes a ton of work and consistency to keep it going. You have to put in the work if you want to sit back and have money rolling in automatically.There are many ways outside of online business. Real estate and stock trading are also hot right now as well. I've developed a new Entrepreneur type of forum for anyone who needs help finding ideas or needs questions. It's located at: <a class="user" href="http://www.bigmoneyforum.com/make-money-forum/index.php">http://www.bigmoneyforum.com/make-money-forum/index.php</a>Like I said, you will probably have to work consistently for a long period of time before you finally get it right. I hope this helpsBest Regards