Great entrepreneurs show up, take small risks, and raise their hand…
Joel Sposky has a post talking about a few books. He singles out a quote from Ben Casnocha’s book called My Start-Up Life.
Great entrepreneurs show up, take small risks (and sometimes, large risks), raise their hand when they’re confused, and try to figure out what’s going on and how a situation could be made better.
When you show up and raise your hand, you’ve already outperformed 90 percent of the crowd.
That’s a really preceptive insight from the 19 year old. I’ve meet plenty of people who have lots of great ideas, but not enough balls to ante, do something about it and the determination to see it through.
If we’re going to change that way of thinking, then we’ve got to start early. That’s one of the core drivers of the Summer of Code ie. show that there are options outside of the cubical farms of the big consulting companies. On the Summer of Code you’ll get paid to experience the life in a start-up and hopefully think of your own ideas to cook up.