Entrepreneurship is something the runs in the blood of any human. When something is necessary and depending on the resources available a person can typically generate a good or service to fill that need. It is basically the caveman situation: need food, need weapon, need strategy to acquire food.
We all have needs, but some of us are better than others at figuring out the niche of a need not met by the current solutions; this is when things start to get interesting. The path can go 1 of 3 ways.
-fill the need silently and for themselves; selfish
-fill the need but share it freely with the world; selfless, and someone else will probably capitilize on it
-fill the need and learn to capitalize on it; libertarian or capitalistic
If the capitalistic route is the forte, a whole can of worms is unleashed! Who can help, where's the financing, what's my strategy for launch, can I sell one of kdneys to keep my dream alive. Ect ect.
Each one of these is just a cog in the system of bringing an idea to market. Some of us get lucky and find something very simple and necessary to a large market that takes only an infomercial to explain. Most of us will discover something only a small portion of people need. So is it even worth pursuing if it is the small portion? That is a difficult question that I presume can only be answer by luck, fate, and most of all personality.
Not everyone is cut out to pull a 180 in their life. Some of us have prior commitments like family or a large debt like a house. Some of us just aren't a "go getter" or "self starter". It really makes me wonder where their ideas go. A good portion of people have a precieved idea of how they want to grow up or be like thier peers at a 9-5. I happen to have been born with a strange set of screws.
My family on both sides were from farm families, a blessing in disguise of a set of dirty jeans and boots. Farmers are naturals at the early traits of an entrepreneur. Something breaks you either buy a new part which could take over an hour of down time to run and get, or you engineer a fix to continue out the day. At my dads farm it was a bit 50/50. Alot of out of the box solutions didn't fit the niche we needed so we spent time engineering the exact solution we needed. It was often exciting to hear my dad show me something he built from scratch or existing parts. My mom's side was much the same way. Farmers where also very quiet and modest bc their was a decent amount of rivalry between nearby farmers for land and just for fun. *lost my train of thought bc ben crossbones just called me*
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