Comments on: Single biggest problem with entrepreneurs http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/single-biggest-problem-with-entrepreneurs.htm?nucrss=1 business + science + philosophy + technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:15:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stephen Guffanti http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/single-biggest-problem-with-entrepreneurs.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1004 Stephen Guffanti Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:39:26 +0000 http://paraschopra.com/blog/?p=416#comment-1004 Paras, I agree and disagree. What I agree with is your entrepreneur group is limiting your understanding of the problem. What I disagree with is that some of your customers are also entrepreneurs you are just not talking to them. For example, this blog didn't have a large Reply button. I almost gave up trying to figure out how to reply. I am an entrepreneur, but clearly not in technology. I could really use your website optimizer because it would help me increase conversions. So you should pick my brain about your product even though I am an entrepreneur. Steve Paras,
I agree and disagree. What I agree with is your entrepreneur group is limiting your understanding of the problem. What I disagree with is that some of your customers are also entrepreneurs you are just not talking to them.

For example, this blog didn’t have a large Reply button. I almost gave up trying to figure out how to reply. I am an entrepreneur, but clearly not in technology. I could really use your website optimizer because it would help me increase conversions. So you should pick my brain about your product even though I am an entrepreneur.
Steve

]]> By: The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide, Part II: Getting Out There « The Art of Living http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/single-biggest-problem-with-entrepreneurs.htm/comment-page-1#comment-976 The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide, Part II: Getting Out There « The Art of Living Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:54:40 +0000 http://paraschopra.com/blog/?p=416#comment-976 [...] In the end, networking is just a small part of the process of being an entrepreneur. It’s a tool along with many others. Any startup is dependent on customers, which are usually not your fellow entrepreneurs.  So, don’t get too caught up in networking and forget about them. [...] [...] In the end, networking is just a small part of the process of being an entrepreneur. It’s a tool along with many others. Any startup is dependent on customers, which are usually not your fellow entrepreneurs.  So, don’t get too caught up in networking and forget about them. [...]

]]> By: Jason Evanish http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/single-biggest-problem-with-entrepreneurs.htm/comment-page-1#comment-970 Jason Evanish Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:26:17 +0000 http://paraschopra.com/blog/?p=416#comment-970 Paras, I definitely see what you mean. I think the difficult balance is understanding the advice and input you can get from these circles (connecting you to the right resource, past similar experiences and spreading the word) versus actually basing your product on it (you need to talk to the people with the checkbooks). Having navigated the Boston entrepreneurial community for the past year, this sort of issue is definitely apparent; most people in the community assume that every entrepreneur knows about all the events and organizations they do. At some point, you get to know enough people that you're "plugged in" and aware of everything, but that doesn't help the next group of young entrepreneurs. It is because of this problem, and for the greater benefit of the whole community I launched a site, www.GreenhornConnect.com to try to allow people a easier task of removing the "aspiring" from "aspiring entrepreneur". We're only in beta now, but will look forward to being at least a partial solution to this type of problem. Best, Jason Paras,

I definitely see what you mean. I think the difficult balance is understanding the advice and input you can get from these circles (connecting you to the right resource, past similar experiences and spreading the word) versus actually basing your product on it (you need to talk to the people with the checkbooks).

Having navigated the Boston entrepreneurial community for the past year, this sort of issue is definitely apparent; most people in the community assume that every entrepreneur knows about all the events and organizations they do. At some point, you get to know enough people that you’re “plugged in” and aware of everything, but that doesn’t help the next group of young entrepreneurs. It is because of this problem, and for the greater benefit of the whole community I launched a site, http://www.GreenhornConnect.com to try to allow people a easier task of removing the “aspiring” from “aspiring entrepreneur”. We’re only in beta now, but will look forward to being at least a partial solution to this type of problem.

Best,
Jason

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