Don’t Stop Selling Your Dream
One of the biggest issues that I come across with young entrepreneurs is the extreme frustration when trying to sell your vision to people. I think that we’ve all experienced this at some point throughout our journey.
Here’s a typical scenario:
Mindy: I have this great idea. I know that it’s going to blowup. But I can’t make it happen.
Peter: Why, what’s the problem?
Mindy: I can’t convince anyone to help me out with the business. I don’t have the capital to dish out a lot of money. I need a programmer and designer to be a part of the team — on an equity basis — to make it happen.
Peter: So if you can’t get people to be a part of your team, then what? You aren’t going to push forward?
Mindy: Exactly. I can’t go through with it. Sucks!!
Unfortunately, the above scenario is quite common among us young entrepreneurs. I have personal experience with such situations of selling your idea to people and not being able to find the right person to come onboard.
But let me tell you something: no matter how many people turn you down, no matter how many people refuse to work with your company on an equity basis for whatever reason (need to pay bills, food, family, etc.), and no matter how many people say that your business idea is garbage and they wouldn’t want to be a part of it…. you MUST keep on searching.
There are people out there who will believe in your idea. People who will want to be a part of your vision and dreams. People who will unconditionally believe in your plan and want to see it succeed more than anything. You just need to bust your ass trying to find ‘em.
So if you’re sitting there with a plan and no team to implement it, don’t let the refusal of other people dictate the future of your idea. You have to keep on moving no matter what. If you become stagnant, you’re dead. If you become too stressed out and despondent about not having the necessary people to help you make it happen, then guess what, it’s not going to happen. Keep your spirits high and never stop searching.
Sooner or later, you’ll find the right people and your plan will have finally launched into the stratosphere.
3 Comments
lawrence
May 16th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
great read - simply inspiring,
but there’s a fine line between being smartly perseverant and blindly ambitious - which the latter will bring you into a downward spiral if you’re not quick to realize
lol - entrepreneurship is so alluring
David Askaripour
May 16th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
nice point, Lawrence. I guess the bottom line is to follow your dream no matter what difficulties and oppositions that you face — we all must realize — as entrepreneurs — that those are givens and it’s never going to be easy.
Sammy Villarreal
May 18th, 2007 at 3:50 am
Exactly. If it were that easy, EVERYONE would be Entrepreneurs, right?
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