Why Entrepreneurs Aren’t Getting the Help They Need

Help is out there, so why isn’t it being accessed?

Today’s entrepreneur has an unprecedented number of options to get the help, advice, and answers they need to start their own companies, build innovative products, and make a positive economic impact on their communities.

So why aren’t they getting it?

The answer might surprise you.

“We have excess capacity”

Earlier this week I had a call with an entrepreneur halfway around the world who was in the same space as me and facing the same problems.

He, like me, had already had a decent amount of prior success. At some point on his entrepreneurial journey, he heard a calling to help other entrepreneurs overcome the same obstacles he had faced and was still facing.

There are a lot of ways for entrepreneurs to answer that call. His own calling had led him to construct a network of experts to create content and give time to the thousands of entrepreneurs that his network could potentially reach.

My own calling is Teaching Startup, startup advice and answers on demand via a newsletter and app. So of course I was interested to learn anything I could from his experience. One of the first…