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Which is the Best Way to Start Out on an Idea: Big or Small?
Before starting out on entrepreneurship, I was often told to start small. In fact, before starting out on a lot of things, the advise I would receive from the lot around me was always start small. Rarely did I ever hear one say start big. On second thoughts, no one ever said start big.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably had very big dreams. Dreams that only you can bring to reality. It’s like they came to you for a reason. They knew you were the only one; the only one that could bring them to life. And so the excitement of the dreams and your dreams clash in a perfect time in the cosmos birthing a beautiful relationship filled with the euphorias of a better tomorrow only possible through you.
For such a time as this you embrace the famed words of Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena. You stand before the mirror and echo the words,
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms…