I am not an entrepreneurship guru. I do not
have ambition or experience to be one. I do not want to lecture on the right or
wrong ways of doing business. I lecture at the university and that completely
satisfies my desire for attention, self-importance and influence on the life of
others, even if in a small way (at least five students each semester are
genuinely interested in my subject).
Career of professional blogger is also not on
my list. Of course, it would be nice to have an alternative if all of my
start-up enterprises fail, but I am neither hilarious, nor have ground-breaking
ideas about anything. My English is far from being perfect, since I am not a
native speaker, hence do not expect sophistication and puns in my writing.
I write mainly for my own benefit. Writing
helps to clear my head and gather my thoughts, fight stress and not to lose
focus. Writing for me, as for many other people, is a form of meditation, since
I have never been able to master the art of the real thing. I honestly have
been trying to meditate more or less regularly for some time, always failing
miserably. Instead of clearing my head and enjoying empty silence, meditation
brought me more stress and more wandering thoughts. After I noticed that
writing a piece about something leaves my head as empty as a white sheet of
paper, I ditched meditation and started my blog.
On the negative side, writing a blog helps to
procrastinate and find one more reason not to do the important stuff, while at
the same time giving a false sense of accomplishment. It is not the same meaningless
occupation as watching sit-coms on TV or checking FACEBOOK without any reason,
isn’t it?
Anyway, to justify writing is easy, the
questions is, why share it with everybody? Well, there are no real reasons for
that, apart that I want to share. One day, while googling business related
information I kept stumbling on the interviews and blogs of famous
entrepreneurs and various gurus. And, despite how outlandish it may sound, none
of their advice and experiences worked for me. It was not the first time,
either. I remember some time ago sitting in the lecture of a guest speaker at
my university – he is a very famous entrepreneur from Lithuania – and thinking
to myself: “It is really interesting, what he is talking about, but I have not
a clue how can this be relevant to anyone in this room”. And it was not
relevant – he was too high above on the ladder for any of us to relate and
learn from his experience. As a new entrepreneur in a country in the middle of
nowhere, I find myself in this situation quite often. And I believe that I am not
the only one, therefore I want to share my thoughts with people, who might be
going through the same stuff.
I might not say anything extraordinarily clever,
brilliantly innovative, or of “guru quality” in my blog. Most likely, my
observations will be common sense for more experienced entrepreneurs. But, to
my defense, I have read more than a few books, which did not say anything more
than common sense, and they still were the best sellers. By the way, the same
applies to any country’s strategic plans on innovation and economic growth, but
nonetheless they are proudly presented as a new way forward. So, there is a
fairly good chance, that sharing my experience will be interesting for someone
out there and we will be able to discuss common hardships of entrepreneurship,
celebrate our victories, solve our problems and laugh at silly things. And that
is worth the effort!
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