Why Payback Is No Reason to Become an Entrepreneur

Got fired or demoted?

Want to unleash a little small business startup revenge?

Before you make plans to become an entrepreneur, think about your career motives.

Is your desire to start a small business clouded by payback and vengeance?

I’ve even been passed over for promotion, by people who were less qualified and competent than I.

So I can relate to the real human feelings of revenge and bitterness that can rise out of the depths of a career disappointment.

But the discontent alone does not give you an excuse to retaliate by starting a small business.

Because the knife you are wielding to stab your old company or boss in the back could be the fatal blow to your own small business dream, before it even starts.

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Become a 6-figure Freelancer Without Starving

Picture this: You are your own boss.

The Big Kahuna.

Queen of England.

No butts to kiss. No co-workers to tolerate.

Your freelance business is Microsoft and you are Bill Gates. Read the rest of this entry »

You’re ready to wave goodbye to the corporate rat race, and start your dream freelancing business.

But not without first learning from the costly freelancing mistakes of others.

Armed with the latest SBA’s statistics about small business failures, you dust off the winning business plan you wrote in college, ready to pursue your freelance entrepreneurial career.

With business cards and letterhead in hand, you scream at the top of your lungs, just like Leonardo DiCaprio’s Titanic character, ” I’m the queen of the business world.”  Well, not yet.  Read the rest of this entry »