Following up on our post ‘How Entrepreneurship is Not a Rich Quick Scheme‘, I do believe in entrepreneurship building slowly, on the long term, the foundations of a new business, at least until there is such an adoption of their product that scaling becomes the main issue.
Like Richard Branson says, “there are no quick wins in business, it takes years to become an overnight success“. I am always amazed at how start-ups try to develop quicker than the natural development time of their product, boosted by substantial investments from rapacious investors.
It might be that I am excessively on the safe side, favoring minimum external investment and self-development (which is also a way to remain free), and that my ventures could benefit from some injection of cash to grow quicker. At the same time, I am a firm believer that new approaches and products need some time to get adopted and understood and that there is a limit to the speed of development, at least until they reach a stage of adoption where scaling becomes an issue.
I am interesting in building stuff of quality and that will be viable for the long term. It takes time and that’s normal. So let’s assume it and avoid again those ‘get rich’ scheme delusion.
