12 Things Entrepreneurs Should Be Thankful For

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12 Things Entrepreneurs Should Be Thankful For
by: Dharmesh Shah on Wed, Nov 23, 2011

1. Customers.

2. Getting to pick the exceptional people we work with.

3. An opportunity to add value, big or small, to people’s lives.

4. Not having to ask permission to try something crazy.

5. The patience and understanding of our family and friends — especially when we likely don’t deserve it.

6. Receiving payment for value delivered. There’s no feeling like it.

7. The joy of seeing a sliver of light after some dark, dark, days.

8. The freedom to change what’s not working. It’s sometimes painful, but at least it’s possible.

9. Not having to rationalize to your family and friends why you took that Wall Street investment banking job.

10. Day 2,743, when the world celebrates your “overnight success”

11. The pleasure of helping team members create memories and experiences that will last a lifetime. Most of them good.

12. The chance to try. To fail. To try again and flail around. Then, with some luck, to flourish.

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10 COMMENTS

  1. 13. Not living in a place run by the likes of OwenParkeWeinzapfelWinneckeBagbeyRobinsonJonesZiemerMosby.

      • Who’s negative?

        I’m sincerely thankful not to have to live in the ‘Patch!

        My family is thinking about doing some community service for the holidays–maybe arranging an airlift out of Evansville for the few remaining sentient beings?

        • So, and I ask this sincerely wanting to know, if you feel the way you do about Evansville than why do you even bother reading the local news sites and commenting? I don’t necessarily disagree with your point of view, I just don’t understand your continued interest in the city/region. If family matters had not brought me back, I would be somewhere else too, but during the years I was living elsewhere, the last thing I spent my time on was news from here or commenting on it.

          • I still have friends and family in Evansville.

            Truthfully, I don’t spend much time thinking about it, but the CCO is entertaining enough to draw me back every once in awhile.

  2. #14 Being honestly thanked for a job well done, it’s a very gratifying feeling to have a customer call after the work is completed and take the time to say “Thank You”

    JMHO

  3. Just thought I would add a little dash of reality to the conversation:

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    TIME MAGAZINE

    SPECIAL REPORT/CORPORATE WELFARE
    NOVEMBER 9, 1998 VOL. 152 NO. 19

    CORPORATE WELFARE

    A TIME investigation uncovers how hundreds of
    companies get on the dole–and why it costs every
    working American the equivalent of two weeks’ pay every
    year

    By DONALD L. BARLETT AND JAMES B. STEELE

    How would you like to pay only a quarter of the real estate
    taxes you owe on your home? And buy everything for the
    next 10 years without spending a single penny in sales tax?
    Keep a chunk of your paycheck free of income taxes? Have
    the city in which you live lend you money at rates cheaper
    than any bank charges? Then have the same city install free
    water and sewer lines to your house, offer you a perpetual
    discount on utility bills–and top it all off by landscaping your
    front yard at no charge?

    Fat chance. You can’t get any of that, of course. But if you
    live almost anywhere in America, all around you are
    taxpayers getting deals like this. These taxpayers are called
    corporations, and their deals are usually trumpeted as
    “economic development” or “public-private partnerships.”
    But a better name is corporate welfare. It’s a game in which
    governments large and small subsidize corporations large
    and small, usually at the expense of another state or town
    and almost always at the expense of individual and other
    corporate taxpayers. (more)

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