| Since high school I thought I wanted to be an entrepreneur. In HS/college I start websites (ranking in SEO was very easy) and made 30k. I also started a web host and grew it to several hundred clients and sold it for 20k. So I graduated with 50k in the bank. It felt awesome, but looking back things were so easy back then. The next 10 years have been pretty bad though. I have a huge problem sticking to an idea. Out of the dozen ideas, nothing has stuck. If I started a "niche blog" I'd say I'd probably quit after 3 weeks. Last year I bought a vending machine route for 35k but got screwed over in the end. Not all is bad, I bought a rental property which has done very well (big increases in rent too). Right now the rental property is kinda feeding my entrepreneurial "hunger" - I still go to networking events, do the book keeping, but I don't have enough money to expand... But of course there is nothing like start/owning a "real" business, RE is more investment management. So I don't know. I'm kind of getting sick of how entrepreneurship is so glorified in the media etc. Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur. What would you do in my shoes? I've thought about getting a cofounder to compensate for my weaknesses. Also maybe I have to choose the "right" business. |
A rental property solves a real problem in life. Guess what, you found some success doing it. Try to solve a real problem, maybe you’ll wakeup one day running a huge business. That’s when you’ll tell people how you became a successful entrepreneur. Focus on the problem 1st.