July 2007

Startups are hard work!

Posted by Grant Brewer on 03 Jul 2007 | Comments (2)

Staring up a new venture is hard work. It is hard work, regardless of whether you're establishing a real independent start up business, starting a some kind of non-profit organisation or starting a new line of business in an existing organisation. Everything just seems to take much more effort and take much longer than you originally think. I don't think I've ever met or read about a entrepreneur that commented with hindsight that turning their idea into reality turned out to be far easier than they had imagined! The fact that setting up a venture to commercialise your new idea is a lot more difficult than it seems at the outset means that entrepreneurship needs to go far beyond ideas. We've commented before that developing a strategy is difficult, but often more easily achieved than implementing it. This is entirely true of strategies focused on implementing new ideas - truly talented entrepreneurs have skills that extend past the ideas to encompass operational skills and a great deal of patience! The successful embrace these apparent conflicts and above all they develop the patience to trust that their vision will materialise piece by piece over time. Rome was indeed not built in a day.

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