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Sounds like you have a great gig, but real entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship (which is what you are) are very different beasts primarily because of risk:rew
by asanwal 16y ago
Sounds like you have a great gig, but real entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship (which is what you are) are very different beasts primarily because of risk:reward.
Your risk is lower but so is your upside.
And that is one thing that entrepreneurship/startups offers - the chance at building something and being rewarded big (albeit generally at insanely high risk)
- eitally 16y agoMostly true, but... it depends on personal values. For me, the lower risk rewards me with consistently high quality (and regular) family time. That said, I am granted enough flexibility that if I come up with a saleable product/service idea I am allowed to pursue it with company financing. The odds are extremely low that any idea at all relevant to our operations would end up with a huge payoff, but the odds are much higher that my work will payoff in incremental business wins, and I'm ok with that. I'm not in it for the money [as long as the money is stable and my income has a positive slope].