The Virtue of Entrepreneurship

Business owners get a bad rap in culture. Greedy and hoarding, shrewd and insensitive. Ebeneezer, Mr. Burns, Scrooge McDuck, Eugene Krabs… In recent years, an entire movement (though was actually predicated on non-movement?) rose up against the wealthiest 1%, and the oppression the accusers claim allow them to stay on top.

Entrepreneurship is not a selfish or evil endeavor.
Its very nature is essentially other-directed.

To successfully launch a new product or service, you must be able to look outside yourself, at the world, and identify something people want or need. Then, creatively devise a way to meet that potential need at a price people are willing to pay — your offering must worth more to them than the money in their pocket. That money must be enough to satisfy your production costs, allow for growth, and (hopefully someday) provide for your own personal needs. Until (if) it works out, you take all the risks to make the concept a reality. You pay everyone else involved first. All of this requires an enormous amount of faith and hope, and sometimes that is all you’ll have.

Does this sound like a bad deal, scary and not worth it?
If it sounds like an adventure and something you can pull off, heed the call, the world needs you!