How Do You “Become” An Entrepreneur?
A Recap of This Week’s Teaching Startup Q&A Newsletter
How does someone evolve into an entrepreneur? A founder? a CEO?
This week in the Teaching Startup Q&A Newsletter, some of our veteran entrepreneurs answered that very question.
To be 100% honest, this is one of the questions I get all the time and it’s silly and kind of painful but I understand why it gets asked a lot.
How does one become an entrepreneur? The short answer?
First, you have to call yourself an entrepreneur, over and over again. That’s the silly part.
Second, you literally have to do nothing. Except start, build, and grow a business. That’s the painful part.
I mean, the answer is right there in the question.
Or is it?
Snake Oil and SaaS Startups
Not all “entrepreneurs” are “entrepreneurs.”
I’ll be the first to tell you that entrepreneurship has always had kind of a shady film around it. And that shadiness can be lite shadiness like the fake-it-until-you-make-it ethos of any legit startup, or it can be the good old-fashioned shadiness of a Billy McFarland.
