What does it take ?
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Money. Either enough to invest in something or enough to pay your bills while you get started. Or both. And more.
Often money earned from doing a job or work which you would rather not do or which is hard, unattractive and even poorly paid. That equates to determination.
Luck and timing. I've had 2 or 3 ideas over a similar number of decades which have turned out to be worth hundreds of millions (and probably more) to those with better timing, more luck, better access to capital and quite possibly a better business plan than I could have mustered but all of whom came later to the idea than I did.
Access to markets. Even with a great product or service, if you have no access to markets you cannot win and others will move faster than you can and absorb your customers into theirs. You used to see this in the Dragons Den type of thing, where entrepreneurs would trade off potential future profits for probable near dated real profits, often through access to markets.
Often money earned from doing a job or work which you would rather not do or which is hard, unattractive and even poorly paid. That equates to determination.
Luck and timing. I've had 2 or 3 ideas over a similar number of decades which have turned out to be worth hundreds of millions (and probably more) to those with better timing, more luck, better access to capital and quite possibly a better business plan than I could have mustered but all of whom came later to the idea than I did.
Access to markets. Even with a great product or service, if you have no access to markets you cannot win and others will move faster than you can and absorb your customers into theirs. You used to see this in the Dragons Den type of thing, where entrepreneurs would trade off potential future profits for probable near dated real profits, often through access to markets.
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