Dean Kosage - 3 Insights into Entrepreneurship

Back in August of 2013, Gary Vaynerchuk posted an article on his Medium.com account titled “13 Thoughts on Being an Entrepreneur”. In his article he focused simply on the mindset and points of view that has worked for him throughout his career. As an entrepreneur myself, I agree with a lot of things that he wrote about in his article and I think that more successful professionals should be sharing their honest and unfiltered thoughts and experiences with their audiences. With a few successful startups under my belt, I humbly offer these three insights into entrepreneurship as a means of inspiring you to finally pursue your ambitions:
 

Compromising is a myth. I hear so many people making every excuse in the book as to why they can’t be entrepreneurs. I’m too old. I don't have the right education. I have too many other responsibilities. I don’t have time. That’s simply not true. Being an entrepreneur is about carving out time for your professional ambitions. If you have other responsibilities, well then get in line. Everyone has other things they need to get done every day but if you don’t take stock of your time and prioritize your entrepreneurship, you’re never going to accomplish anything.

You can be a single parent and an entrepreneur. I’ve heard multiple people claim that they can’t raise children and start a successful business. My only response is this: I did it, and I did it multiple times. It wasn’t easy, but it is certainly possible and if you want it bad enough, your children are going to see a parent that is ambitious and following through on their dreams, not a parent who is somehow neglectful.

Age doesn’t matter. I get it, there are teenagers all over the country who are creating startups in their dorm rooms or in the basement of their parents house. The fact that they’re young creates this myth that it is a young person’s game. Don’t devalue your experience; it’s your greatest asset, regardless of your age. Some of my greatest accomplishments have come later in my life and if I had given up in my twenties I would never have gotten to where I am today.

I feel like a lot of the challenges that entrepreneurs face, especially when first starting out, are put there by themselves. It’s easy to limit yourself and create obstacles because you are afraid of failure. But realizing that these obstacles are self-imposed and setting your mind on your targets is a crucial first step to finding eventual success.

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