Proposify Biz Chat

What inspired me to be an entrepreneur When I was younger I never thought I wanted to own a business. Some of my entrepreneurial friends had parents who owned businesses, but not me. My dad was a maintenance worker, my mother a nurse, and neither of them felt owning a business was a viable career move. My parents knew that 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months, and that fail rate was enough to scare them into scaring me away from the thought of starting one. But when I was 14 my friend was looking to pass off his newspaper route, the job that funded his much coveted video game and action figure collection. I was too young to get a job at a fast food joint so wanting some financial independence for  video games of my own, I asked him if I could take it over. For more than three years I would spend over an hour delivering newspapers after school every day of the week and early in the morning on weekends.