Entrepreneurship - The Introduction

While I don't consider myself an expert in entrepreneurship, there are a number of insights that have either come to light or that have been validated for me thus far on this journey that I feel are worth sharing with those of you just starting out.  This series of Entrepreneurship posts will detail my findings (and ongoing questions) in this regard.

I personally got into entrepreneurship back in November of 2002 when I finally decided to pursue my vision of making information available to folks at-a-glance through aesthetically pleasing metaphors (i.e., pretty pictures) ;^).  I had recently read an article in PC Magazine about this company called Ambient Devices that was creating 'glanceable' objects that displayed information at a glance.  I had had a similar idea, though software-based versus hardware-based, back in December of 2001 and had sat on it (as usual).  You see, I'm not what I would consider to be a 'natural-born' entrepreneur/businessman; I didn't have my own newspaper route or lemonade stand or side business in high school/college.  Not only that, but I am not even outgoing - in fact, I pegged the scale for introversion on the Myers-Briggs personality assessment test!  I am much more inclined to reside in my own little world than to attempt to foist my views (or products) on the world at large.  Even so, I surmised that I needed to give this a shot rather than wonder about what might have been...

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."     --Theodore Roosevelt

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