Ok_Bike239

joined 10 months ago
[–] Ok_Bike239@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

But does a WordPress site give my potential clients a good image and impression?

 

Looking to have someone who is a highly-skilled web designer and/or developer in London or anywhere else in the UK to create a high-quality website for my new company. I will have some seed investment cash within several weeks, and will be using a bit of that cash to pay someone to do my company website for me.

If anyone has any personal recommendations or suggestions of where to look, do feel free to get in touch with me. Thanks in advance.

 

This Christmas I’ll be visiting family members for a large get-together. I haven’t seen most of them for a very long time. I have little doubt that at least someone is going to ask me what I’m doing with my life - what I do for work/for a living.

Recently I just started my own business (with some seed capital). I know what these family members think about people who start new small businesses and entrepreneurship.

They will be negative and cynical, and roll their eyes and maybe even laugh when I tell them I have just launched and started to run my own business.

If I do indeed get negative and cynical/anti-business responses that are hostile to entrepreneurship and if I am laughed at , what can I say?

Or maybe how can I even say that I have started a business in a way that won’t get me some eye rolls and replies like “come on, dreamer, you need to get a job.” ?

[–] Ok_Bike239@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Choosing entrepreneurship/self-employment/starting your own business over getting a "job" and being an employee of a company, is an extremely risky decision to make. Yes, it is exciting and the potential rewards can be amazing (this is why those of us who chose this path did so, right?), but it is very scary, too.

As exciting as it is, and as enjoyable as it can be (and should be, assuming you've chosen something you're passionate about), running your own business comes with very hard work, all of which must be initiated by you and you alone. Your success (or the rate at which you move towards success) depends very much so on how much effort you put in; what resources you have to help you, and how much (and what kind of) support you have.

Moral support and encouragement from loved ones - family and friends - helps a ton if you are lucky enough to have that. Sadly, many have family and friends who are unsupportive or even actively discouraging (I think most often this is down to jealousy). Things are so much easier (by no means easy, just easier), when you have a supportive and encouraging environment. Try to socialise with fellow entrepreneurs/business owners, if possible, in your local area perhaps, or heck even online, so you can be around people who are likeminded and who you can relate to - and, ultimately, will support and encourage you.

Many non-entrepreneurs just don't "get it". Let's be honest, life is much easier to be in traditional employment, where you have "a job" or a career working for someone else; where you can clock-out at the end of the day, go home and switch off from your work until the next day or next week. When you're an entrepreneur, particularly an early-stage entrepreneur, you don't have that luxury, you have to be focussed on your business day, evening and night.

Many people just cannot understand why you would choose that over a job or career that would give you an easier life. They see you struggling, often financially, and fighting constant challenges and obstacles in those early stages and just cannot fathom why you would put yourself through that, when there is the option to go work for someone else and not have to go through all of that.

Entrepreneurship isn't for the faint-hearted, and only a (albeit large) minority of people are, in reality, really suited to it. But even those of us who have chosen this path, and believe we are among the few truly suited to it, need support and also encouragement along the way. To those who are able to crack on and succeed without that - I salute you.

[–] Ok_Bike239@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Choosing entrepreneurship/self-employment/starting your own business over getting a "job" and being an employee of a company, is an extremely risky decision to make. Yes, it is exciting and the potential rewards can be amazing (this is why those of us who chose this path did so, right?), but it is very scary, too.

As exciting as it is, and as enjoyable as it can (and should, assuming you've chosen something you're passionate about) be, running your own business comes with very hard work, all of which must be initiated by you and you alone. Your success (or the rate at which you move towards success) depends very much so on how much effort you put in; what resources you have to help you, and how much (and what kind of) support you have.

Moral support and encouragement from loved ones - family and friends - helps a ton if you are lucky enough to have that. Sadly, many have family and friends who are unsupportive or even actively discouraging (I think most often this is down to jealousy). Things are so much easier (by no means easy, just easier), when you have a supportive and encouraging environment. Try to socialise with fellow entrepreneurs/business owners, if possible, in your local area perhaps, or heck even online, so you can be around people who are likeminded and who you can relate to - and, ultimately, will support and encourage you.

Many non-entrepreneurs just don't "get it". Let's be honest, life is much easier to be in traditional employment, where you have "a job" or a career working for someone else; where you can clock-out at the end of the day, go home and switch off from your work until the next day or next week. When you're an entrepreneur, particularly an early-stage entrepreneur, you don't have that luxury, you have to be focussed on your business day, evening and night. Many people just cannot understand why you would choose that over a job/career that would give you an easier life. They see you struggling and fighting constant challenges and obstacles in those early stages and just cannot fathom why you would put yourself through that, when there is the option to go work for someone else and not have to go through all of that.

Entrepreneurship isn't for the faint-hearted, and only a (albeit large) minority of people are, in reality, really suited to it. But even those of us who have chosen this path, and believe we are among the few truly suited to it, need support and also encouragement along the way. To those who are able to crack on and succeed without that - I salute you.

[–] Ok_Bike239@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Choosing entrepreneurship/self-employment/starting your own business over getting a "job" and being an employee of a company, is an extremely risky decision to make. Yes, it is exciting and the potential rewards can be amazing (this is why those of us who chose this path did so, right?), but it is very scary, too.

As exciting as it is, and as enjoyable as it can (and should, assuming you've chosen something you're passionate about) be, running your own business comes with very hard work, all of which must be initiated by you and you alone. Your success (or the rate at which you move towards success) depends very much so on how much effort you put in; what resources you have to help you, and how much (and what kind of) support you have.

Moral support and encouragement from loved ones - family and friends - helps a ton if you are lucky enough to have that. Sadly, many have family and friends who are unsupportive or even actively discouraging (I think most often this is down to jealousy). Things are so much easier (by no means easy, just easier), when you have a supportive and encouraging environment. Try to socialise with fellow entrepreneurs/business owners, if possible, in your local area perhaps, or heck even online, so you can be around people who are likeminded and who you can relate to - and, ultimately, will support and encourage you.

Many non-entrepreneurs just don't "get it". Let's be honest, life is much easier to be in traditional employment, where you have "a job" or a career working for someone else; where you can clock-out at the end of the day, go home and switch off from your work until the next day or next week. When you're an entrepreneur, particularly an early-stage entrepreneur, you don't have that luxury, you have to be focussed on your business day, evening and night.

Many people just cannot understand why you would choose that over a job/career that would give you an easier life. They see you struggling and fighting constant challenges and obstacles in those early stages and just cannot fathom why you would put yourself through that, when there is the option to go work for someone else and not have to go through all of that.

Entrepreneurship isn't for the faint-hearted, and only a (albeit large) minority of people are, in reality, really suited to it. But even those of us who have chosen this path, and believe we are among the few truly suited to it, need support and also encouragement along the way. To those who are able to crack on and succeed without that - I salute you.

[–] Ok_Bike239@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Choosing entrepreneurship/self-employment/starting your own business over getting a "job"/being an employee of a company, is a frightening and extremely risky decision to make. Yes, it is exciting and the potential rewards can be amazing (this is why those of us who chose this path did so, right?).

This decision comes with very hard work, all of which must be initiated by you and you alone. Your success (or the rate at which you move towards success) depends very much so on how much effort you put in, how much resources you have to help you, and how much (and what kind of) support you have.

Moral support and encouragement from loved ones - family and friends - helps a ton if you are lucky enough to have that. Sadly, many have family and friends who are unsupportive or even actively discouraging (I think most often this is down to jealousy). Things are so much easier (by no means easy, just easier), when you have a supportive and encouraging environment. Try to socialise with fellow entrepreneurs/business owners, if possible, in your local area perhaps, or heck even online, so you can be around people who are likeminded and who you can relate to - and, ultimately, will support and encourage you.

Many non-entrepreneurs just don't "get it". Let's be honest, life is much easier to be in traditional employment, where you have "a job" or a career working for someone else; where you can clock-out at the end of the day, go home and switch off from your work until the next day or next week. When you're an entrepreneur, particularly an early-stage entrepreneur, you don't have that luxury, you have to be focussed on your business day, evening and night. Many people just cannot understand why you would choose that over a job/career that would give you an easier life. They see you struggling and fighting constant challenges and obstacles in those early stages and just cannot fathom why you would put yourself through that, when there is the option to go work for someone else and not have to go through all of that.

 

A personal friend of mine who is an investor, told me this (in an email discussing the topic of him providing me with seed funding for my business):

"I am thinking that I may actually make this investment out of my company into your company".

I don't want to reply to this email asking what he meant by this and come across as "thick" (I confess, I must be !).

What is meant by this??

[–] Ok_Bike239@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I get where you’re coming from, OP, but I don’t like the question. It’s as though you’re saying we only have our (early) twenties to make a go of things in life.

I used to have this dumb/narrow-minded attitude and outlook, too, but I have realised it actually isn’t the case. In fact, as it happens, most first-time entrepreneurs are in their early 40s (and usually more successful than the entrepreneur ‘kids’ in their early 20s.)

[–] Ok_Bike239@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Art - potentially including digital art, too - is the (entrepreneurial) space I would love to get into, either as a broker or a curator or both.