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The First Time Entrepreneur Myth
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I’ve been an entrepreneur for a few years now — in the beginning of my journey, like many wide-eyed potential business owners, I visited many startup, business-focused and funding events and exhibited in a few as well.
My first business’ target was the entrepreneur market, providing things like website design, SEO, and admin, all with the focus of offering them to startups at low cost.
There was one phrase which I heard so often I actually lost count of the number of times it crossed my ears, but it was also a phrase that, before beginning my journey, I had uttered myself.
Something which only escaped the lips of budding entrepreneurs, those who hadn’t yet started their own ventures — those would-be business owners toying with the idea of dipping their toes into the ocean of the startup world.
‘I have a brilliant idea, one which could change everything, but I can’t tell you because I don’t want anyone to steal it.’
This was quite a problematic statement at times, especially when someone was asking me to build a website or do some marketing for them and they wouldn’t…
