Entrepreneurs don't just have to start businesses, we've also gotta grow them and
keep them running.
So entrepreneurship really, in my opinion, is at the very heart of business.
And an entrepreneur has to be a very well-rounded business person.
So that's the journey I wanna take you on through this course.
A lot of times, entrepreneurs,
especially in the beginning, don't think of themselves as business people.
They think of themselves as someone with an idea.
And maybe that's where you are.
Maybe you've got an idea, or an inkling of an idea, or
you think you might be able to find an idea, all right?
And so you're in this course and you wanna see how you can take this idea and
transform it into a company, how you can be an entrepreneur, someone who has,
operates and runs their own company, okay?
Definition of entrepreneur, I'm gonna stay away from, but
I really do like this quote by Ludwig von Mises, who
talks about some of the characteristics that an entrepreneur is gonna have.
And specifically, in the realm of how they view the world.
A lot of times, people think us entrepreneurs are crazy and
we see things different than everybody else.
I like what von Mises said about the fact that entrepreneurs,
we don't see a different past.
We don't see a different present.
We don't live in la-la land, as we say, right?
We see the past like other people see the past.
I see the present as anybody sees the present.
But sometimes, in fact, maybe often, I view the future in a different way.
Why is that?
Why would I have a different view of the future?
Why would you have a different view of the future in respect to the business or
the idea or the project or the product that,
that you're currently working around with in your head?
Why do you think the, the future can be different than those around you?
We're gonna look about, at that a little bit in the next section.