IMAGINE THE IMMIGRANTS OF 250 YEARS AGO, flocking to America’s shores, and starting their own business to express their freedom and feed their families. Many spoke no English. It must have been incredibly difficult to get started!
Today, we have myriad more legal requirements to comply with, and regulatory hoops to jump through, but we also have an enormous knowledge base at our disposal. We're not neophytes anymore.
Should you reinvent the wheel?
Just in the past 30 years of entrepreneurial expansion there have been experiments tried, experiences learned from, discoveries made, and notes taken. Bottom-line, there are tens of thousands of stories out there that are available to each of us on the whys and wherefores of being an entrepreneur -- of being a microBusiness owner. You can easily learn how others have done it, why many have failed, how some have become incredibly successful, and why others didn't care for their new gig at all. You can learn about creative financing, serial entrepreneurs, guerilla marketing, working from home, the psychology of leadership, using technology, and myriad other things, all from people who have been there. There are so many entrepreneurial case histories floating around the Internet and in periodical archives that virtually any question you may have, has already been answered a hundred times over. You don't have to create a totally new, untried, unproven business enterprise -- unless of course, you really want to.
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